How to Avoid Creating Repeat Characters

by | Oct 3, 2013 | Uncategorized

by Stephanie MorrillStephanie writes young adult contemporary novels and is the creator of GoTeenWriters.com. Her novels include The Reinvention of Skylar Hoyt series (Revell) and The Revised Life of Ellie Sweet (Playlist). You can connect with her on Facebook,...

Characters Who Are Broken and Beautiful

by | May 30, 2013 | Uncategorized

by Stephanie MorrillStephanie writes young adult contemporary novels and is the creator of GoTeenWriters.com. Her novels include The Reinvention of Skylar Hoyt series (Revell) and the newly released The Revised Life of Ellie Sweet (Playlist). You can connect with her...

What Are Your Characters Talking About?

by | May 28, 2013 | Writing

Jill Williamson is a chocolate loving, daydreaming, creator of kingdoms. She writes weird books for teens in lots of weird genres like, fantasy (Blood of Kings trilogy), science fiction (Replication), and dystopian (The Safe Lands trilogy). Find Jill...

Identifying Your Characters’ Weaknesses

by | Feb 20, 2013 | Uncategorized

by Stephanie MorrillLast Thursday, I posted a list of character strengths, which launched a very interesting discussion in the comments section about our main characters’ personalities. I had a request to make a list for character weaknesses as well, which I...

Identifying Your Characters’ Strengths

by | Feb 14, 2013 | Uncategorized

by Stephanie MorrillI 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...

Choosing Names for Your Characters

by | Jan 22, 2013 | Writing

by Jill WilliamsonSince I talked about pronouncing names last Friday, it got me thinking about how to choose good names. I’m pretty sure I’ve talked about this some before, so I thought I’d take it a bit deeper.I find names in baby name books and...

7 Ways to Grow Your Characters’ Relationships

by | Jan 14, 2013 | Uncategorized

by Stephanie MorrillA writer emailed me to ask about how to grow a relationship between two characters over the course of a book. This is an excellent question, and a big challenge whether you’re talking about a romantic relationship or a friendship.I had to do...

A way to add depth and conflict to characters

by | Dec 5, 2012 | Writing

by Stephanie MorrillOne way to add depth to your important characters is to determine their philosophies about life. And to maximize conflict, the life philosophies of various characters should contradict each other. (Though it can also be fun to have two characters...