Ellie Williams

Ever feel like your characters are just… props? You’ve got the plot, you’ve got the setting, but your lead character is acting more like a robot than a human. They’re doing what you say, but they aren’t living. They don’t have that “spark” that makes a reader stay up until 3:00 AM just to see what happens next.

I’ve been there. The “flat character” slump is real, and it’s exhausting.

For the last few weeks, I’ve been working on something behind the scenes in the lab. I realised that most character development advice focuses on the outside—the backstory, the physical traits, the external goals. But the characters that actually jump off the page? They’re built from the inside out.

I’m currently finishing up a project that changes how you approach your desk. It’s a new way to “interview” your characters that bypasses the standard tropes and gets straight to the messy, complicated truth of who they are.

I’m not quite ready to pull back the curtain just yet, but let me just say this: If you’re tired of writing characters who feel like they’re just going through the motions, you’re going to want to keep an eye on this space.

Something transformative for your writing desk is coming very soon.

Stay tuned.