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Questions 1114: Developing a Young Character

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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 character who is now 15, grow him beyond proxy and make him interesting enough to turn pages, but not so interesting that he’s trying to drive an adult book with adult-sized life-or-death stakes?

Hadrian’s Flight
Between Planets
The Secrets of the Heinlein Juvenile

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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 character who is now 15, grow him beyond proxy and make him interesting enough to turn pages, but not so interesting that he’s trying to drive an adult book with adult-sized life-or-death stakes?

Hadrian’s Flight
Between Planets
The Secrets of the Heinlein Juvenile

The post Questions 1114: Developing a Young Character appeared first on The Every Day Novelist.

  continue reading

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