How Writers Build Their Characters

How do writers build their characters? Ideas for stories swing by very often in a writer's head. So do setting and dialogue. One of the hardest things I find about writing is developing my characters. No matter how gripping and original your story is, if your readers don't feel, or can't relate to your characters' plight/position, they cannot completely engage with your novel.

So how do writers build their characters?

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Greatest Summer Reading For Kids

A Blogger's Books has done a global walkabout to bring you this list of greatest summer reading for kids. This list includes a mixture of craft books, reading books, activity books. Books for younger kids and older ones. Books bring back the simple joys kids get from reading a fantastic, adventure story.

There's no worry about leaving expensive 'toys' in the bus on the way to camp, or forgetting iPods on the beach. Books are sheer fun and the easiest presents you can find. This summer your kids don't need the equivalent of over-priced Corporate Gifts. Present them with one of the following and let's get summer on the road! 

Greatest summer reading for kids

Amelia Bedelia Goes Camping, by Peggy Parish

Ages 4-8

Amelia Bedelia has never been camping in the great outdoors before. She's trying her best to do exactly as she's told, but pitching a tent is not the same as throwing it into the bushes, and catching a fish with your bare hands isn't easy. As usual, the mixed-up housekeeper makes this camping trip one hugely entertaining adventure.

My Follow Friday - Authors Promoting Authors

As writers we're aware of how difficult it is to get your foot on the first rung of the literary ladder. This impossible 'feat' never happens for most potential writers. For the few who've made that first step, it wasn't without the help of colleagues and well-wishers who helped to promote them and their craft.
I follow Authors Promoting Authors because this is a blog set up to specifically support and promote other writers.

In our small slice of the world, most of us have turned to the Internet as a way of building our fan-base and writing platform. Sites like these are exactly what writers need to cast their promotional shadow on new audiences. I suggest clicking the link to the blog to read their FAQs if you have a book you'd like promoted, or a suitable guest blog idea.