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 …
Step #1: The idea phase We all have to start out somewhere. Usually, it’s just a small idea floating around in the subconscious. Sometimes you see something that sparks and idea. Maybe it’s an epiphany. But, wherever your inspiration comes from, it tends to start with one thing and then spread out from there. Write …
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, …
Writing amazing, authentic middle-grade characters can take a lot of observation and note taking. If you have real kids in your life to model characters after, that could give you a head start, but whether you do or not, these tips can help you figure out what observations to make and even help you expand …
With first-person point of view, it’s often relatively easy to write a close perspective compared to third person. With third-person-limited point of view, it’s quite possible to do, but third person comes with a few common pitfalls, namely head hopping or accidental shifts into omniscient POV. If done well, third person limited can feel as …
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