Trying to Write Great Characters by Allison Knight

I'd like to welcome back Allison Knight.  Allison will be sharing her tips on writing great characters today in our Writing Tip of Week segment.  Welcome, Allison, take it away! 

Novels always involve characters. They can be people, animals, or strange objects that don't look or act like anything we know. So, how do you go about creating a character, and how do you make them believable?

The answer is simple and then not so simple after all. And, that is not a contradiction. First, to create a ...