You may have a brilliantly written, exciting novel, but if the beginning is a bit dull, you risk losing your readers before they get to the good bit. This is particularly true for children, who rarely persevere with a book
The answer is, as few as possible! If you can keep the number of characters in your story down to the bare minimum, it will make your writing less complicated, thereby keeping the action going at a good pace. If,
Five things we need to know about our characters before starting to write: Whoever we are writing for, we need to have characters that our readers identify with. The better we know our characters, the better we can share them
