Your Weekly Writing Exercise

Making Your Characters Real Individuals, Making Them Stand Out

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Mary Carroll Moore
Mar 04, 2022
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A MG (middle-grade fiction) writer in one of my past online classes posted a great question that sums up the main struggle most of us have with writing vivid characters.

How do I make my characters more distinctly individual? Different from each other, realistic enough to be believable, clearly so on the page?

Developed characters, fictional or real, shou…

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