How to create a character. Every good story needs strong characters. You could write about characters you already know, from books, films or television, but it’s much more fun to start with a ...

A common way to transition into a flashback is to invoke the character's memory—having them see something that resonates, ...

Clever plots are fine, but it's the characters that bring a story to life. It's the characters that we get emotionally involved with, and which we are likely to remember most when the story's over ...

In an effort to answer this question we examined how strokes combine to make characters in more than 100 writing systems over human history, ranging from about 10 to 200 characters, and including ...