Guest Post-How to Make Your Characters Believable

This guest post is by Gaelen VanDenBergh, author of the novel ‘Running Against Traffic’.

Your characters are crucial to a good story. Yes, there must be a plot. Things have to happen to these people. But in my opinion, if the characters are not believable, the most riveting story will fall flat.

You have to know your characters. What do they like to eat? If they had a day entirely to themselves, alone, what would they choose to do? Do they have secret dreams or desires that no one knows about?...