An interesting character to the reader is going to be one that isn’t perfect.\u00c2\u00a0 Perfection is boring.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
Writers should create characters with bad habits or character flaws they just can’t seem to shake.\u00c2\u00a0 In Joanna Scott’s Follow Me<\/em>, the main character keeps running from her\u00c2\u00a0poor decisions\u00c2\u00a0to a new town and a new surname.\u00c2\u00a0 She’s really stuck with me because by the third time it seemed she would have decided to make a different decision – but she didn’t.\u00c2\u00a0 As frustrating as it was, she’s memorable because of that characteristic.<\/p>\n Can you think of any characters that have stayed with you because of their imperfections?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An interesting character to the reader is going to be one that isn’t perfect.\u00c2\u00a0 Perfection is boring.\u00c2\u00a0 Writers should create characters with bad habits or character flaws they just can’t seem to shake.\u00c2\u00a0 In Joanna Scott’s Follow Me, the main character keeps running from her\u00c2\u00a0poor decisions\u00c2\u00a0to a new town and a new surname.\u00c2\u00a0 She’s really… Continue reading Imperfect Characters Make Perfect Characters<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[141,140],"class_list":["post-1884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-follow-me","tag-joanna-scott","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1884"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1887,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884\/revisions\/1887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}