Characters with Secrets

fictionwritingtips:

The characters you write will often have secrets they hide from other characters and possibly the readers. Depending on how you want your novel to go, you need to decide who will be in on it. Writing a character with a secret can be difficult, so hopefully these tips will help you out.

Like I mentioned before, you need to decide who your characters are keeping secrets from. Who is in on it? Do we know as the reader? Will it be a surprise to the reader? How the secret change...