The Character Development Series: Part One

“When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.”

Ernest Hemingway

I doubt I could give you a better philosophy to follow on the subject of character creation than Hemingway, but perhaps I can manged to shed some light on the idea.

Hemingway’s character/caricature is more commonly known as a flat character. While these kinds of characters sometimes have their place, if they are the center of a story the will almost always fail.

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