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10 Best Resources For Creating Fictional Characters

1. Hollylisle.com

Holly Lisle is a full-time fiction writer with 32 published books. You would expect her to have excellent character building tips, and she doesn’t disappoint. Her advice.

2. Writing.com

The page has character building tips for different genres of fiction writing along with flat and round character creation, naming fictional characters and so on.

3. Suite 101

Suite 101 has various lessons on the art and craft of fiction writing. This page has good tips for Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Animal characters for writers of Children’s books.

4. Advanced Fiction Writing

Randy Ingermanson has 6 published books and is a writing mentor for many young fiction writers. Great advice by him on how to go about character building.

5. The Fictional Character Development Template

If you could talk to your characters, these are the questions you will want to ask. Great tips to help you bring your characters to life.

6. Charlotte Dillon

Charlotte Dillon is a writer of Romance books with many published books. She has a great website with impressive advice on building super characters.

7. Lillie Ammann

Lillie Ammann is another romance writer with a superb website on fiction writing. On her character building page, she gives you a point-wise strategy to building memorable characters. Go through all the six articles for full benefit.

8. James Wood @ Guardian

This is an excellent article on the most memorable characters in the history of writing. James Wood talks about the things that made those characters immortal. He challenges many stereotypes concerning fictional characters that have become engraved in our minds. A must read.

9. Men With Pens

Although it has a sexist name, the site has some great character building advice. Read this article on what are the traits that make readers care about fictional characters, and while you’re at it, leave them a flaming comment about the name of the blog.

10. NPR’s List of 100 Best Characters

In this great list, npr.com has compiled the names of 100 best characters ever created in fiction writing (according to them), and the books they were featured in. Got your own favorite character? Find out if it’s in the list.