Wordplay: Helping Writers Become Authors: Han Solo, Scarlett O’Hara, and Your Characters: What Makes Them Compelling?

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Han Solo, Scarlett O’Hara, and Your Characters: What Makes Them Compelling?

Today, I’m honored to be hosted on The Write Practice. Be sure to stop by the blog to read my guest post “Han Solo, Scarlett O’Hara, and Your Characters: What Makes Them Compelling?” Below is a sneak peek:

We all know what a compelling character looks like.

Han Solo. Scarlett O’Hara. Tom Sawyer. Anne Shirley. Frodo Baggins.

Those are the characters we’ve cheered for, and those are the kinds of characters we want to put into our stories. But watching Han Solo swashbuckling on the big screen is scads easier than trying to write someone who can pull in readers with the same force of sheer charisma.