Creating Strong Characters - Book 2 (PDF eBook)
Creating Strong Characters is a practical guide to developing believable fictional people that readers can care about, understand — or even come to hate.
Strong stories depend on strong characters. This guide shows aspiring writers how to move beyond flat descriptions and create characters with believable motives, distinctive voices, strengths, flaws, fears, relationships and contradictions.
Using clear explanations and recurring practical examples, the book explores how background, appearance, dialogue, disability, private thoughts, motivation and point of view can all help reveal character naturally. It also looks at supporting characters, antagonists and character arcs, showing how the choices characters make can drive the story forward.
Rather than relying on stereotypes or rigid character formulas, the emphasis is on creating fictional people who feel individual, consistent and recognisably human.
Your purchase includes:
- the complete PDF guide
- a separate editable Microsoft Word workbook
- practical character-development exercises
- a final character checklist
Ideal for first-time novelists and independent authors who want their characters to feel like real people rather than simply names serving a plot.
MyNovel Author Series — Book 2
Written by Mike Grobler