Characters to Go
This month's blog hop topic is Creating Compelling Characters who drive the plot and keep readers reading . My heading is somewhat of a cheat, in that it's the title of one of my how-to writing manuals which I produced years ago in concert with my assessment and editing service. Eventually, I combined a dozen or so of the manuals into one giant edifice (truly, you could use the thing as a stepladder) with a long title. Characters to Go became a part of that. Mind, I'm not simply reproducing chunks of that book for this post. That really would be cheating! I've been creating characters for more than fifty years. My earliest ones were generally girls of about my age (then) or animals. The human characters tended to be fascinated by animals, fantasy, stories and country adventure, just as I was. I suppose most of them were offbeat, just as I was, and am. I never had any desire to write about immoral characters, or MCs who were cruel or nasty or unlawful or even disobedie...