Turning Voices in Your Head into Characters that Engage Readers

When Laurel Anne Hill, award-winning author and former underground storage tank operator, begins to write, she doesn’t know much about her characters. Sometimes, they’ll just start talking inside her head, and that’s how she discovers more about them. To make these characters believable, Hill says, they have to do things: take risks, get into trouble, fail, and try again. Just like real people, the characters should have limits to what they can do and have priorities pulling them in multiple directions...