SPA Girls Podcast – EP153 – From Cookie Cutter To Kapow: Bringing Your Characters To Life

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Name your favourite character from any book you’ve ever read. What did you like best about that character? Was it how they acted? Was it their personality, or because they stood up for something they believed in?

Those are the kinds of questions you should be asking when you’re designing the characters for your next book. This week our topic is how to create characters that your readers will love, and with that in mind we dissect what makes a good character and how you can create characters for your stories that will take your novel to the next level.

We delve into what characteristics are important, how to create tension between the hero and heroine using their personalities and flaws, and how you can use your character’s traits to move the story forward and follow the arc of the plot.

We also talk about how to help your readers to get to know your characters, how to pull them into the story by making them feel like they know your characters really well, and how to make readers cry. (Mawaahahaha….)