This Week In Revision: Characters With Baggage

Quick--what first comes to mind when you see:

Popular? Pretty? Mean? Dumb? 


Moody? Morose? Serious? Misunderstood? Deep? Poetic?

Popular? Hot body? Lucky with girls? Dumb? Jerk?
Smart? Unpopular? Ugly? Scrawny? Absolutely unlucky with girls?

Some characters come with a lot of baggage! 

I'm writing a story about a high school girl, so naturally some of these character types people my story. And some of them, unfortunately, read as stereotypes: flat, predictable, boring. This week, I've worked on...