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There s nothing worse for a reader than a stale, predictable character. Here, award-winning author S. K. Ali shares her top 3 tips for ensuring an engaging cast.
How to Inhabit the Character You Write About
One key to engaging your reader is to give them a character they love to read about. Author Diana Souhami gives her top tips for making this happen.
Author:
May 4, 2021
As a writer, I spend most of my life with people who are dead. How sad is that? Deeply perverse. I am in the resurrection business. I relate obsessively to people who aren’t there, more so than to the living. I read their diaries and love letters, pore over photographs, prowl round their houses, get all such information as I can from those who knew them for real.
Character Mentor (2012). The very well-regarded character design instruction books on the art of designing memorable cartoon characters for film, television, video games and comic books are now required textbooks at many art schools around the world.
As the legendary cartoonist embarks on his new venture, check out my conversation with him below this retrospective of his work.
JWK: So, tell me about the road to forming Pencilish.
Tom Bancroft: In the nineties I was a part of Disney Feature Animation and worked on a lot of the classic films like
Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King, Aladdin,
Pocohontas and
5 Tips on Making the British Royals Into Appealing Fictional Characters
Novelist Wendy Holden explains how you can best tackle characterizing the British Royal Family.
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Feb 20, 2021
The whole world is fascinated with Britain’s Royal Family. They’re a non-stop soap opera in which practically every twist and turn have featured over the years. This is why they make great drama like
The Crown. That they seem rather chilly and ruthless also works brilliantly on screen, but presents a definite challenge to the novelist. For fiction to work, you need to create sympathy and so for
The Royal Governess, my novel about the Queen’s little-known childhood, I had to warm up The Windsors. For anyone thinking about doing the same, here are my tips.