Writing Compelling Characters
I'm excited to particpate in The Great Blogging Experiment , brainchild of bloggers extraordinaire Elana Johnson , Alex J Cavanaugh and Jennifer Daiker . The experiment is simply this: a bunch of bloggers blog on the same exact topic on the same exact day---today! Will it be mass redundancy, or will we find each post insightful in it's own way, colored by each blogger's unique personality? We shall see. I'm betting on the latter. For a list of participants in The Great Blogging Experiment , click on the link to this post at Elana's blog and scroll down. Much thanks to Elana, Alex, and Jen for setting all of this up. The topic: Writing Compelling Characters. It's well established that fictional characters should have flaws. It makes them real and therefore relatable. And getting readers to relate to a character is imperative if the character is to be compelling. But even the flaws have to be done just right. If we don't follow certa...