Be sure to give your characters enough contrast in their behaviors, habits, looks, dialogue, and reactions to set them apart from each other. Conflict Conflict creates drama. Your main character should have a problem to solve, and something or someone should get in the way of progress. Setting Be sure to give your story a sense of place. Your readers do not have access to your highly detailed imagination, so you will have to carefully choose how you spell it out for them, keeping in mind that you need to be concise.
Long descriptions are usually very boring.
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