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Writers, and readers, know the
importance of characters. In Characters
& Viewpoint, Orson Scott Card reminds writers of something we should
know almost instinctively: “… readers want your characters to seem like real
people. Whole and alive, believable and worth caring about. Readers want to get
to know your characters as well as they know their own friends, their own
family. As well as they know themselves.”
But having characters worth caring about isn’t enough, is it? There has to be more to keep readers turning pages and saving their pennies to buy the next installment in your series about a serial-killer-turned-nun who runs a detective agency out of a convent. That something else is conflict. As James Scott Bell tells us in Conflict & Suspense, “Conflict has long been recognized as the engine of story. Without conflict there is no drama. Without drama, there is no interest. Without interest there is no reader. And no writing career.”
