Make Your Characters Shine
Through talent or circumstance, make them exceptional.
4 min readJul 25, 2019
On my last bargain book extravaganza, I found a bunch of writing craft books and, just recently, I’ve started reading the first one: Donald Maass’s Writing the Breakout Novel. Once you get past some of the quirky advice from the early ’00s — like not knowing whether e-readers would become a thing or sending agents a SASE along…
