One of the first things you’ll hear in a fiction-writing class is the necessity of likable characters with whom readers can identify. You also must have a villain, be it a person or circumstance, that ...

We tend to think that fiction authors just dream up characters out of nowhere. But writers often get their ideas from everyday life, and, being great observers, they often turn people they know or ...

We continue our series In Character, where we ask listeners to submit personal essays on their favorite fictional characters. Today, it's Jack Bauer from the TV series 24. We've also asked you to ...