While a great storyline and an intense setting can make for an excellent read, what really creates a great book is awesome characters. After all, how many pages have you kept turning just to see what happens to the MC?

Getting your reader to care about your characters is a task every writer should aim for, and these tips just might help.

7 Tips For Creating Awesome Characters

Perfect The Voice

There are some books where the character voice is immediate. I remember sitting at a writer’s festival listening to a publisher talk about the winner of their latest competition and how they won because the voice stood out from the first line. I’ve since read that book (It Sounded Better In My Head by Nina Kenwood) and it’s true. The character voice of the MC is on point from the first sentence and makes you want to follow…