"Your characters’ obstacles might not be of the high fantasy kind, but thinking about how your..."

“Your characters’ obstacles might not be of the high fantasy kind, but thinking about how your characters would react in extreme situations teaches you things about who they are—things that you can use in your own story.

 

Put your characters in Hogwarts, or Oz, or some other realm that you know well. What does your character do? What house are they sorted into? How do they react when faced with a Big Bad like Voldemort or The Wicked Witch? And if you find you don’t know if your character is a Slytherin or a Ravenclaw, or what they do when they drop a house on a certain witch, then maybe it’s time to answer those questions before moving back to your book.”

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Danielle Paige is the New York Times bestselling author of the Dorothy Must Die series, and the upcoming Stealing Snow series. In addition to writing books, she works in the television industry, where she’s received a Writers Guild of America Award and was nominated for several Daytime Emmys. She is a graduate of Columbia University and lives in New York City. 

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