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Tips for Making Your Characters Vivid Individuals on the Page

Tips for Making Your Characters Vivid Individuals on the Page

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Mary Carroll Moore
Nov 18, 2016
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A MG (middle-grade fiction) writer in one of my online classes posted a great question this week:  How do I make my characters more distinctly individual?  Different from each other, enough to be vivid individuals on the page?

Developed characters, fictional or real, should be distinct from others in the story.  If they all blur together, it's hard to ma…

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