Comments on: Need to Add Depth to a Character? Consider A Quirk https://writershelpingwriters.net/2018/07/spice-up-your-characters-personality-with-a-quirk/ Helping writers become bestselling authors Fri, 10 Jun 2022 09:20:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Barbara Parker https://writershelpingwriters.net/2018/07/spice-up-your-characters-personality-with-a-quirk/#comment-600327 Fri, 03 Aug 2018 04:58:57 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/?p=33391#comment-600327 Interesting article. I’ll be more aware of the importance of works

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By: Top Picks Thursday! For Writers & Readers 08-02-2018 | The Author Chronicles https://writershelpingwriters.net/2018/07/spice-up-your-characters-personality-with-a-quirk/#comment-600275 Thu, 02 Aug 2018 17:01:52 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/?p=33391#comment-600275 […] from your story. Stavros Halvatzis explores minor characters in stories, Becca Puglisi suggests adding a quirk to your characters to add depth, James Scott Bell examines the mirror moment in Huckleberry Finn, and Kim Bullock reminds us that […]

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By: Fran Caldwell https://writershelpingwriters.net/2018/07/spice-up-your-characters-personality-with-a-quirk/#comment-599538 Fri, 27 Jul 2018 00:06:18 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/?p=33391#comment-599538 I appreciate this. Great thing about it is that you can add the quirks during revision, when the character was just a bit too nice, or even boring, in the original draft.

Sadly, I still have a problem with ‘show, don’t tell’, but I try to fix these up during revisions, too.

I revise a lot!

Thanks.

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By: Glynis Jolly https://writershelpingwriters.net/2018/07/spice-up-your-characters-personality-with-a-quirk/#comment-599518 Thu, 26 Jul 2018 16:14:03 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/?p=33391#comment-599518 My mom had the fairness quirk with Christmas presents when my brother and I were kids. It was always three presents and one of them was also something fun, a toy, a game, something not clothes.

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