Character creation — and development — is probably one of my favorite aspects of writing fiction, and I’m not talking about how tall or short, muscular or rotund, striking or unlovely an individual might look. Bogging down an introduction with a catalog of a character’s features is distracting; it focuses the reader’s attention on them rather than drawing him to look deeper, though looks do not, in most cases, make or break a story. While looks can help to give some hints about a person or help to give them color in our imaginations, it is the qualities distinctive to an […]