Author Archive: Louise Marley

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How to Prevent Your Characters from All Sounding the Same

How to Prevent Your Characters from All Sounding the Same

At the start of my career I had a book rejected because the commissioning editor didn’t feel my characters were ‘coming across’. I think she was trying to find a polite way of saying they were flat and dull – ‘cardboard’ characters, if you like – which is about the worst thing you can say […]

January 2, 2017 | By | Reply More