(More) Solutions for Writing Middle-Grade Characters: Part 3

Welcome! Thank you for coming back for Part Three of my series: Solutions for Writing Middle-Grade Characters. In this post, I’ve added three more solutions, with this week’s focus being on verbal development. Unlike the dialogue-focused article, this week I shift direction more toward how children grow and change over time as they age. I …

Solutions for Writing Middle-Grade Characters: Part 2 (Dialogue)

Welcome back for Part Two of my series: Solutions for Writing Middle-Grade Characters for three more helpful tools to get your child character just right. As with the previous post, this article focuses on middle-grade characters, but you can generalize many of these tips to younger kids and teens. To see Solutions #1 through 5, …