Sleuth by Gail Bowen

Author:Gail Bowen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of Regina Press
Published: 2018-05-07T20:34:43+00:00

Make sure each of your characters talks in a distinctive fashion. Choose diction that fits the character: too consciously cool, deliberately provocative, pugnacious, pompous, seductive, hypermasculine, butter wouldn’t melt in her mouth, et cetera. Which actor would you choose to say that character’s lines? For Maureen Gault, I chose the voice of the actress who played Heather Chandler, the meanest of the mean girls in the 1988 classic Heathers.

Give your character a particular haunt—a place that somehow defines her.

Allow your character to change in some fundamental way in the course of the novel. The change doesn’t have to be as dramatic as Ebenezer Scrooge’s 180 degree reversal on the meaning of Christmas, but revealing a glimmer of humanity in a seemingly unredeemable character will keep him from being a cutout figure. Conversely, showing a character flaw or a moment of weakness in an otherwise exemplary character will humanize him.

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