Identifying Your Characters’ Strengths

by Stephanie Morrill

I feel like I should have planned some sort of love post for today … but I didn’t. The Go Teen Writers newsletter this month, however, was about falling in love with writing, so I did do something holiday related. Just not on the actual holiday.

Instead I want to talk about character strengths. Here’s a fun list of strengths that you can use for helping to deepen current characters, create new characters, or to flesh out the rest of the cast. Like, wouldn’t it be interesting if your main character and the villain had the same strengths?