Writing Basics–Writing Characters With Soul
Posted in Writing Basics, Writing for children on Jan 21st, 2009
There is a weird kind of alchemy which makes characters come alive on a page. It has to do with what I think of as the “five dimensions of character.”
In geometry, the four dimensions are . . .
breadth,
depth,
height and
time.
In writing, this translates into the following:
Physical setting–does the story take place in one location, [...]
