Three signs that your novel has too many main characters – and what to do

Alexander M Zoltai:

This past Monday, I published a post about Roz Morris’ book, “Nail Your Novel”.

Today I’m re-blogging one of her posts about main characters :-)

Originally posted on Nail Your Novel:

This is another interesting question from my postbag:

I’m writing an adventure story that takes place over a journey, and we meet many characters. I’ve been told my novel has too many, but when I look at comparison titles, big casts are de rigeur. Kidnapped has 15 named characters, though some...