How to Write Compelling Characters – Guest Post by Pamela Collazos

[image error]We writers often section ourselves off into camps. Plot-first writers go in one camp, and character-first writers in the other. But the truth is that, whether you start with the plot or characters, you must create compelling characters to organically move the story along and interest readers in the plot.

Why? Because I’ve done something very terrible, and if you’re honest, you probably have, too. I’ve read a book, like, say, The Awakening, where I was glad a certain main character (*cough* Ed...