Top Highlights

• First: Character is king. There are probably fewer than six books every century remembered specifically for their plots. People remember characters. Same with television. Who remembers the Lone Ranger? Everybody. Who remembers any actual Lone Ranger story lines? Nobody.
• Second conclusion: If you can see a bandwagon, it’s too late to get on.
• But, the third conclusion, and the most confounding conclusion: You can’t design a character too specifically.
• I think the greatest mistake a series writer can make is to get too chummy with his main character.