Creating Stunning Character Arcs, Pt. 1: Can You Structure Characters?
Creating Stunning Character Arcs, Pt. 2: The Lie Your Character Believes
Creating Stunning Character Arcs, Pt. 4: Your Character’s Ghost
Creating Stunning Character Arcs, Pt. 5: The Characteristic Moment
Creating Stunning Character Arcs, Pt. 6: The Normal World
How Not to Develop Characters 101
Is a Quirk Just What Your Character Needs?
12 Tips on Creating an Engaging Flawed Hero
On Writing Strong (Female) Characters
How Are Your Characters WRONG?
Writing Characters That Are Smarter Than You
How to Interview Your Character
Picking a Juicy Secret to Jazz Up Your Character
The Six Traits of Strong Characters
Are Blank Characters Too Blanking Blank?
Five Unrealistic Character Traits
15 Questions Authors Should Ask Characters
How to Write a Genius Character
Warning Signs! Your Character Is Acting Out of Character
25 Things About Creating Characters
The Ultimate Character Questionnaire
Talking about your character: Mannerisms
Top 5 Ways Writers Screw Up Their Characters
What if Your Antagonist Isn’t a Person?
The Path to Deepening Your Protagonist
The Top 5 Female Character Stereotypes & 1 Tip To Avoid Them
How Not To Write Female Characters
Mary Sue, What Are You, or, Why the concept of Mary Sue is sexist
Should Writers Shy Away from Mentioning Skin Color?
100+ Questions to Help You Interview Your Character
The Universal Mary Sue Litmus Test
I still haven’t found a good article with advice to female authors on how to write male characters (the ones I’ve seen are offensively stereotyping, with nonsense such as ‘Men cannot multitask’ and ‘Men speak in short, simple sentences’), nor one on how to write a character who’s less intelligent than the author without that character coming off as a caricature. If anyone has recommendations, please share!
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