Writing Secondary Characters | Writers In The Storm https://writersinthestormblog.com A Blog On Writing Tue, 04 Feb 2025 03:39:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://writersinthestormblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/WITS-Logo-150x150.jpg Writing Secondary Characters | Writers In The Storm https://writersinthestormblog.com 32 32 Who Needs Secondary Characters? https://writersinthestormblog.com/2014/02/who-needs-secondary-characters/ https://writersinthestormblog.com/2014/02/who-needs-secondary-characters/#comments Fri, 28 Feb 2014 09:00:24 +0000 http://writersinthestorm.wordpress.com/?p=9839 By Laura Drake I don’t know about you, but I can’t write a book without secondary characters. Yes, I’ve read books without them (or ones where they had tiny roles), but I can’t write that way. I mean, where would The Lion King be without the hyenas? Where would Westley be without Fezzik? (or Billy […]

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