How to Make Your Stories More Edgy

Are your characters flat, boring and not help move your story along? Make their personality edgy. Let their inner demon come out and show who they really are. After all, nobody’s prefect, neither should your characters be perfect. Show their inner personality and put a bit of edge in how they interact with your other characters.

3 Edgy Little Tips to Make Your Story More Compelling

• Give your hero an interesting career.
• Give your hero a distracting personal relationship.
• Give your antagonist a noble goal.

“The key here is to make what they do interesting.  Something that says volumes about who they are, where they’ve come from, and how it defines their world view and current state of mind.  This aligns with the vicarious-reading-experience law of literary physics, versus making the hero’s job as mundane and vanilla as the reader’s.” More…

10 Easy Ways to Make Your Writing Edgy and Quirky

• Push the boundaries
• Add a bizarre twist in your writing
• Dig up the gems

“Edgy tends to mean a hint of the transgressive or dangerous but nothing explicit — while quirky tends to mean something like ‘idiosyncratic and fun’. That’s my take on it anyway… Edgy is a bit of a cliché these days. Provocative is probably a good thought. Also humor of some kind.” – veinglory on AbsoluteWrite. More…

All well and good. But how are you going to lead them past the first few pages while they make a snap judgment about your story? Again, it’s in the way you craft your words. Who do you know in your personal or professional life has an edgy or quirky personality? Study them, uses what you’ve found. Putting edge to your characters will bring them to life and seem more real and – life-like.

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