Have you been told you have flat characters? Don’t worry. You can take your flat characters to genuine in 8 (sort of) easy steps. 

Writers, have you been told to "put ground under your character's feet?" Author Lynette M. Burrows provides some helpful examples.

Don't reduce characters to categories, making them one-dimensional. Instead, try Tiffany Yates Martin's ways to dig deep to create nuanced characters.

Just like a human character, there are many details to consider when writing an animal character. Ellen Buikema shares eight ways to make them memorable.

Shannon Donnelly I’ve been reading some manuscripts lately that have trouble sorting out the protagonist, so this seems worthy of a blog. The protagonist—your central character—needs to be worthy of a story. The protagonist also needs enough going on to carry the story. One of the big problems I see in a lot of romances […]