Write Great Characters

Make your novel irresistible to publishers and readers

One key to exceptional fiction is great characters.

Great characters can be savvy or naive, kind or mean, selfish or generous. You get the idea.

Great characters stay with readers long after they’ve finished your book.

Why? Because great characters make your readers feel something–joy, fear, sadness, rage.

Emotions create an exceptional reading experience. They also make your readers fall in love with your book.

Ready to create that experience for your readers? Get this free guide now.

Write Great Characters: Simple steps to make your novel stronger and more publishable

What writers say about interviewing their characters

With practice, this technique has grown beyond my initial misgivings that ‘these are just made-up answers for fictional beings’ into getting inside my characters to their hopes, fears and motivations so I can feel their responses.

Lisa F.

There were several ah-ha! moments, namely in trying to understand the correlation between my characters and their actions. I was having characters act outside of their goals and didn’t make sense to the plot.

Kenzie B.