What is "characters"

Usage examples of "characters".

I actually turned in, an article on making characters memorable that was so long it had to run in three issues of the magazine.

You improve your storytelling by discovering and nurturing the characters, by letting them grow.

Readers want to get to know your characters as well as they know their own friends, their own family.

By the time they finish your story, readers want to know your characters better than any human being ever knows any other human being.

These major characters are the ones who must satisfy those three questions the audience is constantly, unconsciously, asking.

Most of these are public cliches-events and characters that everybody has seen a lot of over the years.

If you have done the job of fully inventing your characters, this statement will always be true.

Whether you mean to or not, you will constantly draw on your own memory for incidents and characters in your fiction.

This scene would never end up in a story, but these characters, this relationship, might.

All you have to do is take your eyes off the main characters long enough to see who else is nearby.

Most of the characters you discover this way will remain minor ones, or even background characters.

That movie turned out to be effective persuasive writing, precisely because the characters were so believable.

That means that you must be even more careful to make your characters balanced and well-rounded, not less so.

The name of a character is also the label the reader uses to help keep the characters straight.

Russian authors feel no qualms about having characters refer to each other by any or all of the names in any combination, or so it seems.