ideas and techniques for working on your story

Nice little checklist for writing stories:

Use your notebook to build ideas for your character. Build a profile or outline for your main character using some of the suggested headings. Consider all the influences that go into the making of your character: age, gender, race, nationality, marital status, religion, profession. Get to know about your character’s inner life: what they want, think, remember, resent, fear, dream, deny. Get to know about your character’s behaviour, what they wear, b...