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Character Sketches is an article I wrote about building great characters. Read more articles as I post about writing improvement on my Write Any Genre website.

Character Sketches

How to bring your characters to life.

Assuming you’ve chosen your POV, you will already be thinking about your characters. True, too, you may have been thinking about your characters before choosing your POV. The two go hand in hand, or word-for-word.

In order to flesh out your characters and give them ample zing, it’s a...