Veronica Roth on YA Highway

Veronica Roth posted on YA Highway this week and it’s all about characters. The post is titled Getting the Characters “In”, and has some great advice.

Here’s a peak at the article:

Juggling a large cast of characters is a difficult task. How do you keep your reader from getting confused, or lost in all the names? What if you have to introduce a lot of new characters very rapidly? How do you make sure that each one has a distinct presence within your story?

 

We talked about this in one of my writing classes once, and my professor said it all boiled down to getting a character “in.”

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