Character

Posts on writing characters

Sanderson on Character

Another gem from the BYU online writers’ course features author and lecturer Brandon Sanderson on character. In this lecture, Sanderson […]

Robin Catling / February 5, 2022

Editing my genre series got a lot harder thanks to the collision of plot, character and Second Sight. That’s right,

What I call Tolkein’s Legacy of the Rings doesn’t kick-start the fantasy genre. It originates in the roots of story

Robin Catling / January 24, 2021

Here’s a question: how many characters in chapter one? How many does a novel need to get the story going?

Like few other genres, archetypes in fantasy make or break a story. An archetype is a character that fulfils a