Category Archives: Character

Ideas on character creation

On Voice: Three Ways

On Andrew Smith and Attacking the Avant-Garde

Ten: Quick Confusion

If I Stay: Emotionalism in Detail

Gone Girl: To Be YA or Not To Be YA

Half Bad: Engaging Expectation in YA Lit

221B Baker Street: Character in Dialogue

Cress: Word Choice in YA Lit

The Hunger Games: Credibly Unique Protagonists in YA Lit

The Hunger Games: Stakes, Risk & Character in YA lit

The Eye of Minds: Pragmatic Implausibility in YA Lit

On Humanity & Unreliable Narrators

Blood Red Road: Language as Character & Setting in YA Lit

Allegiant: Thought Acts in YA Lit

Ashes: Thought Acts in YA Lit

The Fifth Wave: Embodying Narrative in YA Lit

Ender’s Game: The Utterly Reliable Narrator in YA Lit

Uglies: The Shay Alternative in YA Lit