by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig
This is the second post in a short series about making our lives easier as writers. One thing that I’ve tried to be more conscious of as the years have gone by is limiting the number of characters I introduce in a story or series.
With a cozy mystery series, for example, the field of characters is already going to be pretty crowded. You have a sleuth and a sidekick and around five suspects. And then you have recurring characters: friends and family of the sleuth and some sort of police presence.
The more characters we add, the harder it is for readers to keep up. And we run the risk of not having the space to make the characters more than one-dimensional.Continue reading