The Five Pillars of Storytelling- Characters

(The following is a chapter from my upcoming book on storytelling intended for beginning writers. It is a rough draft, so commentary is welcome.)

Characters

There are many who think that all there is to characters is creating a cool and interesting main character they’re passionate about and everything else will fall into place. Sometimes that is true, and for some writers all they need is that lead character to ignite the fire of their creativity and write volumes of work.

However, in most c...