Creating Believable Characters in Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Horror Fiction

At a glance: This article offers some tips and strategies for creating believable characters in speculative fiction, namely sci-fi, fantasy and horror.

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Investing time and energy into your characters is one of the best things you can do to improve your writing. By making your characters more believable, you’re helping readers suspend their disbelief and accept the fictional world you’ve created.

This is true for writers of any genre. But I would a...