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Chapter Twenty-One: Basics for Developing Your Characters

Characters are arguably the most important element of a story—it is the characters with whom the readers connect, and the characters for whom the readers root or cheer or weep as the story goes on. Creating characters that your readers can truly fall in love with is half-magic, half-skill. There is definitely something magical that happens when a character comes to life on the page... but you can set yourself up for the best chance of that happening by learning the skills behind creating those characters. That’s what we’ll discuss in this chapter. True to the nature of this book, this chapter is going to be a crash course in character creation. If you’d like to go deeper on this topic, I have some blog posts on this topic[1], as well as some suggested readings in the Recommended Readings of the Appendix.

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Chapter Twenty-Two: Giving Your Characters Depth

Let’s build on this concept of character growth a little more. Your character’s arc (whether it be positive, negative, or flat, as I explained above) forms the internal arc of your story. We’ll tal

 
 
 
Chapter Twenty: Tips for Worldbuilding

Worldbuilding can be overwhelming, especially at first. I spent nearly a decade stuck in the worldbuilding phase for my first fantasy series, trying to figure out how to make everything fit together.

 
 
 
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