How to Build a Character for your Writing
Sometimes, writers get lonely, but there are different kinds of loneliness.
There's the standard definition, a kind of outside loneliness. Not much company to be kept in the world beyond yourself. For writers, however, there's sometimes loneliness in that there's nobody in your writing. It has nothing to do with the outside world, but if you're seeking a character, someone looking back at you from the pages, that hollow space can be a problem. Maybe your story just...doesn't have anything else. It's just that, a story. Maybe a description of a place, or a time, something to paint a picture, but those are stories in a different way - stories you tell to the reader to draw their attention towards specific details in a certain order. Without anyone there, however, it can feel quite empty.
