History & The Arts
Start writing fiction: characters and stories
...community, the cast of your story.) Flat characters have few traits, all of them predictable, none creating genuine conflicts. Flat characters often boil down to stereotypes: fat, doughnut-eating cop; forgetful professor; lecherous truck driver; … shifty-eyed thief; anorexic model. Using these prefab characters can give your prose a semblance of humor and quickness, but...