Create Characters That Move

FROM DVORA'S DESK

A blog by author Dvora Waysman

Create Characters That Move.

While conflict is at the heart of good fiction, character lies at its soul. Stories are only as interesting as the people in them. Complex, developed, animated characters versus simple, stock, static characters are one of the defining distinctions between literary and popular fiction. In your own reading, it is character that will draw you back to a story or novel, and character that lives on in your mind, resurfacing and informing your memory of the work. A curious thing about fiction is that it often can approach certain truths that nonfiction cannot. Why are some fictional characters indelible and continue to evolve in our memory, while others are quickly forgotten?

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