Showing posts with label Writing Characters that Matter to Our Readers. Show all posts
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Saturday, July 16, 2022

Writing Characters that Matter to Our Readers


by Emme Gannon @GannonEmme

It isn’t often that we read a novel where the characters are so three-dimensional that while we inwardly scorn some of them for their impertinence, they have the power to turn back at us and eerily point their finger as if to say, I see in you what you see in me. For me, the late Rosamunde Pilcher’s 1987 split-time fiction, The Shell Seekers, had that affect.