on Writers Helping Writers:
Every writer strives to create protagonists with unique qualities that make them compelling, fully-formed people. We spend hours, days, and sometimes years to make them believable.
Recently, I attended a day job webinar that gave me new tools and perspectives for fiction. (I love it when that happens.) The course detailed the eight characteristics every person needs to successfully navigate this “adulting” thing and realize their full potential.
Here are my thoughts about tweaking these traits and qualities to help our own heroes and heroines as they journey through our stories