Unlock the Secret to Creating Characters Your Readers Will Never Forget
The Short Answer
The short answer is that you need to make your readers relate to your characters. But that’s not a very good answer, because it doesn’t explain how you do it.
We’ll get to the long answer in a bit, but first, let’s look at an example of a best-selling novel that highlights how hard it is to make your reader relate to your characters. Let’s look at the novel Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card.
Ender Wiggin, Boy Genius
Ender Wiggin is a six-year-old boy genius. He is scooped up by the government and sent to an orbiting battle school where he’s going to be trained to command an interplanetary fleet of starships in a desperate bid to save the human race from being destroyed by an alien race that’s already on its way to planet Earth.
