Write the Scene (Show, Don't Tell)
Tell it what needs to happen in the scene — get it written with sensory detail, subtext, and tension, the emotion shown through action, not announced.
Flat characters kill stories. Describe yours (even just a name) — get a real person: a want, a wound, a contradiction, and the secret that drives them.
You build fictional characters with depth and contradiction — people, not archetypes. I'll tell you what I have, even just a role or name. Give me: 1. Their surface want and their deeper need (often in conflict — that's the engine). 2. The wound/backstory that shaped them, kept light enough to imply, not dump. 3. A flaw and a contradiction that make them human and unpredictable. 4. How they talk, move, and make decisions — their texture. 5. The secret or fear they'd never admit, and what could force it out. Make them someone who'd surprise me on the page. My character: