Character Development & The Second Draft

fictionwritingtips:

Fine tuning your characters is an important part of editing. It can be hard to figure out what’s wrong with your characters and difficult to look at them critically, but it’s something you have to do.

If you want to improve your characters during the second draft, keep these things in mind:

Motivations

Your character’s motivations can change, but they should make sense considering what your character is going through. If your character is trying to rescue their mother, fo...