Develop your characters for your thriller novel in 30 minutes or less!

You can write great thriller novels. Don't spend time spinning your wheels on your story or wondering why beta readers can't tell your characters apart.

"I learned so much about my newest heroine from using the character development worksheet. This is a great way to gain the confidence to write freely that comes from knowing your main characters inside and out, and it can even help you decide whether someone is a main character."

-AK Weller, author of Enemy Closer

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A Little Bit about the workbook and about me

Developing characters can be time consuming, but not if you have the ideas and information at your fingertips. I use this technique to develop my characters and now it's available to you.

One free PDF downloadable workbook to simplify your writing that includes:

  • Instructions
  • Character Questions for up to six characters
  • Tips on how to edit a novel already written, and
  • An exercise to get you started writing your novel

Who is Sonja Dewing?

I started writing when I was a kid, staring out into the darkness and scribbling away at stories. Now I'm an award-winning novelist.

When I wrote my first novel, Toy of the Gods, beta readers told me that not only did they not like my main character, they also couldn't tell many of the characters apart. That's when I went to work on editing and creating better characters and came up with this workbook.

Get the tips and tricks that I've used in my novels and countless short stories to develop my characters and keep readers happy.

It took a lot of work to get here and this is one of my behind the scenes processes that I use. It pulls together all of the things I've learned about developing characters.

Ready? Then let's get started.