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Cardboard Versus Real, Breathing Characters

Do you have cardboard characters in your story? Free workshop excerpt. Learn from Apex Magazine Managing Editor, Rebecca E Treasure

In this excerpt from her workshop, “6 Powerful Exercises To Polish Your Prose,” Managing Editor at Apex Magazine, Rebecca E Treasure, explores how to avoid creating two dimensional characters and make them inhabit your reader’s imagination.

Rebecca grew up reading in the Rockies and has lived in many places, including Tokyo, Japan & Stuttgart, Germany. Rebecca’s short fiction has been published by or is forthcoming from Flame Tree, Zooscape Magazine, Galaxy’s Edge, Air & Nothingness Press, and others. She is the managing editor at Apex Magazine. Rebecca reads, edits, and writes when she’s not playing Stardew Valley or raising her children. She is fueled by cheese-covered starch and corgi fur. Find her on the internet: https://linktr.ee/rebeccaetreasure.

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