creating memorable characters | Writers In The Storm https://writersinthestormblog.com A Blog On Writing Tue, 06 Jan 2026 16:57:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://writersinthestormblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/WITS-Logo-150x150.jpg creating memorable characters | Writers In The Storm https://writersinthestormblog.com 32 32 How to Use Character Tropes Without Writing Cliches https://writersinthestormblog.com/2026/01/how-to-use-character-tropes-without-writing-cliches/ https://writersinthestormblog.com/2026/01/how-to-use-character-tropes-without-writing-cliches/#comments Mon, 19 Jan 2026 09:45:00 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=56259 Tropes are a starting point, not a shortcut. Learn more about using character tropes to create unique characters.

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The post Ways to Know Your Characters, Part 2- Personality first appeared on Writers In The Storm.]]> https://writersinthestormblog.com/2024/02/ways-to-know-your-characters-part-2-personality/feed/ 7 4 Tips For Memorable Characters From Jack Sparrow https://writersinthestormblog.com/2023/08/4-tips-for-memorable-characters-from-jack-sparrow/ https://writersinthestormblog.com/2023/08/4-tips-for-memorable-characters-from-jack-sparrow/#comments Wed, 23 Aug 2023 11:00:00 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=48388 What can writers learn about creating characters from an irascible character like Jack Sparrow? Lisa Hall gives us four tips.

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The post Writing Memorable Character Flaws first appeared on Writers In The Storm.]]> https://writersinthestormblog.com/2022/05/writing-memorable-character-flaws/feed/ 12 How To “Go Deeper” Into A Character’s Emotions https://writersinthestormblog.com/2021/12/how-to-go-deeper-into-a-characters-emotions/ https://writersinthestormblog.com/2021/12/how-to-go-deeper-into-a-characters-emotions/#comments Wed, 01 Dec 2021 09:27:00 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=44000 Emotions serve three specific purposes: to inform us, to protect us, to warn us. It's a framework to find the why behind what your character thinks and does.

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The post Let Your Characters Tell the Story first appeared on Writers In The Storm.]]> https://writersinthestormblog.com/2020/01/let-your-characters-tell-the-story/feed/ 25 What Type of Secret Does Your Character Keep? https://writersinthestormblog.com/2015/06/what-type-of-secret-does-your-character-keep/ https://writersinthestormblog.com/2015/06/what-type-of-secret-does-your-character-keep/#comments Wed, 24 Jun 2015 11:01:31 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=20371 by Angela Ackerman A friend of mine, the talented YA author Martina Boone, debuted last year with Compulsion, a southern gothic mystery romance novel showcasing a protagonist with the most unique and amazing talent: she is a finder of lost things. For her, this inherited talent (sometimes a curse, sometimes a boon), acts a compulsion--when […]

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