Questions 1114: Developing a Young Character

The Every Day Novelist by J. Daniel Sawyer

Jun 14, 202410:34Education

Jim asks:Previously I mentioned I had a character who was 10 years old in a first book in a series. I had used him as a reader proxy, who gets into a little trouble but isn’t really a protagonist. How do I take a charact...

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