Character Development

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  • Character-Driven Storytelling - video

    Author CS Marks provides tips on character-driven storytelling and shares her writing process of letting the characters determine the plot. She says that there are two...
    C.S. Marks
    • C.S. Marks
  • Characters and Dialogue in YA Fiction - podcast

    Keeping your dialogue real and characters relevant is critical in young adult fiction. Author Janette Rallison offers tips for writing characters and dialogue in YA...
    Janette Rallison
    • Janette Rallison
  • Characters and Dialogue in YA Fiction - video

    Keeping your dialogue real and characters relevant is critical in young adult fiction. Author Janette Rallison offers tips for writing characters and dialogue in YA...
    Janette Rallison
    • Janette Rallison
  • Characters Must Grow - podcast

    Bethany Hegedus, author and owner of The Writing Barn (a writer’s retreat outside of Austin, Texas), shares her thoughts on how and why characters change in a novel...
    Bethany Hegedus
    • Bethany Hegedus
  • Characters Must Grow - video

    Bethany Hegedus, author and owner of The Writing Barn (a writer’s retreat outside of Austin, Texas), shares her thoughts on how and why characters change in a novel...
    Bethany Hegedus
    • Bethany Hegedus