The more you tell your reader about your characters, the more easily he or she will be able to imagine them. Take care to describe your main characters clearly – the heroine, for example. We will be more inclined to enjoy reading your story if we can identify with the heroine. Knowing what she looks like, her likes and dislikes, and perhaps her strengths (her loving nature and sense of humour, for example) and weaknesses (clumsiness and forgetfulness), makes us care more about what is going to happen to her in the course of the stories.[…]
