#juliafierro

[typingoverworld]

Do not allow the reader to dismiss your character as a type. Prove to the reader--by choosing unique but concrete details--that your character is worthy of their sympathy, worthy of their investment in all that is at stake for your character.

Julia Fierro, “Get Closer: Exposing Your Characters (With Compassion)” p. 107 from “Naming the World” edited by Bret Anthony Johnston

[nomadreader]

Yes, she was neurotic, she thought, as most creatives were, but she was a high-functioning member of society."

Cutting Teeth by Julia Fierro