Episode 5: How to develop appealing characters

Heroes in our novel reading appear to be wildly different.  But almost all successful novel protagonists have several common aspects to their personalities, and in this podcast we'll talk about them.  We'll focus on creating a character the reader loves, and so the reader will intensely dislike coming to the end of the  story when the reader must leave the beloved character behind.Support the show

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Hosted by James Thayer, the podcast is a practical, step-by-step manual on how to craft a novel. It presents a set of tools for large issues such as story development and scene construction (Kirkus Reviews said Thayer's novels are "superbly crafted') and it also examines techniques that will make your sentence-by-sentence writing shine. The New York Times Book Review has said Thayer's "writing is smooth and clear. it wastes no words, and it has a rhythm only confident stylists achieve.