Category: Characterization
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Five Ways to Tell if You Have a Passive Protagonist (And if You Do, How to Fix Them)
We all encounter the problem of a passive protagonist at some point, whether we realize it ourselves or have a beta reader or editor point it out to us. But is your protagonist truly passive? Is that so bad, really? And if it is bad, how do you fix it? All these questions have run…
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How to Introduce Main Characters with Style – The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
Maggie Stiefvater’s The Raven Cycle is one of my favorite young adult series of all time. A big part of why I love it so much is the characters: they feel real and complicated in frustrating, beautiful, relatable ways.As a writer, I’m always trying to learn from what other authors do well. That’s why today…