Creating Authentic and Compelling Characters in Short Story Writing: Motivation and Show, Don’t Tell Techniques
Imagine the old man’s eye staring back at you, a pale blue film that drives a man mad. In Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart,” the unnamed narrator’s obsession pulls you into his twisted mind. You feel his racing pulse, hear the imagined heartbeat thumping under the floorboards. That character sticks with you because he’s real in his flaws and…