“Whether a character in your novel us full of choler/bile/phlegm, blood or plain old buffalo chips/the fires of life is there, too,/as long as that character lives.” – James Alexander Thom
“Establish your main character in the first scene.” – Deborah Haverson
“Time spent observing others helps you better understand yourself. The result is relatable characters.” – Amanda L. Betley
“It’s quite likely that an author may be all his characters simultaneously.” – Albert Camus
“Great characters tell their own stories. The author just writes it down for them.” – Evangeline
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My name is Rob Bignell. I’m an affordable, professional editor who runs Inventing Reality Editing Service, which meets the manuscript needs of writers both new and published. I also offer a variety of self-publishing services. During the past decade, I’ve helped more than 400 novelists and nonfiction authors obtain their publishing dreams at reasonable prices. I’m also the author of the Storytelling 101 writing guidebooks, four nonfiction hiking guidebook series, and the literary novel Windmill. Several of my short stories in the literary and science fiction genres also have been published.
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