{"id":45690,"date":"2019-03-18T13:50:13","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T17:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/?p=45690"},"modified":"2019-03-15T21:32:04","modified_gmt":"2019-03-16T01:32:04","slug":"advice-on-creating-characters-with-depth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/18\/advice-on-creating-characters-with-depth\/","title":{"rendered":"Advice on Creating Characters With Depth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a post on <em>Writers Helping Writers<\/em>, Victoria Mixon discusses how to add layers to your characters to create satisfying depth. &#8220;The more layers a character has, the more complex and individual they are, allowing authors to sidestep clich\u00e9 and create cast members that are interesting, unique, and compelling,&#8221; Mixon writes.<\/p>\n<p>Mixon identifies several ways to add layers to characters &#8211; including creating multiple but complementary character traits, imbuing characters with traits and desires they don&#8217;t now they have, and giving characters conflicting but believable needs. To help you get started, she provides examples of all three.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/writershelpingwriters.net\/2019\/03\/layering-character-for-believable-fiction\/\">Read the full post here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/users\/barbarabonanno-789784\/\">Photo courtesy Barbara Bonanno via Pixabay<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a post on Writers Helping Writers, Victoria Mixon discusses how to add layers to your characters to create satisfying depth. &#8220;The more layers a character has, the more complex and individual they are, allowing authors to sidestep clich\u00e9 and create cast members that are interesting, unique, and compelling,&#8221; Mixon writes. Mixon identifies several ways [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436,484],"tags":[453],"class_list":["post-45690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-10-minute-workshop","category-craft-work","tag-characters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45690"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45714,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45690\/revisions\/45714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}