Characters Are Your Friends

by | Aug 27, 2025 | Character, Writing Craft

As a new writer, I read a lot of articles about how to create characters yet none of them proved helpful to me. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t get through the numerous questions on character sheets or figure out what my character had on their bedside...

My Experience Writing First Person

by | Jun 24, 2025 | Character, The Writing Life

Every writer has defaults when it comes to storytelling. Mine include writing in third person, outlining my novel ahead of time, and setting my story in a fantasy world. However, when I came up with the idea for my current work-in-progress, it demanded that I forego...

Let’s write Immigrant Characters

by | Feb 18, 2025 | Character, Writing Craft

Hey friends. We have come to the last part of the series on writing immigrant characters. In part 1, we explored research as a decision-making tool and honed in on some vital details about our immigrant characters. In part 2, we explored the “heavier”...

Let’s Research Immigrant Characters

by | Jan 21, 2025 | Character, Writing Craft

In last month’s post, we began our exploration of writing immigrant characters. We talked about how research can be used as a decision-making tool, and some of the choices to make for your characters. Today, we’re going to get into some of the heavier, yet...

Let’s Celebrate Immigrant Characters

by | Dec 10, 2024 | Character, Writing Craft

In Western countries, December is the month of holidays. When I think about winter holidays, I think about movement—people driving across county lines to visit family, religious historical figures migrating to make change, new holidays moving into public...