How characters' insecurities can lift your story up

Truth isn't always similar to fiction.

For example, especially after the past few years, most of us are craving unremarkable times in real life and all the drama in our fiction.

Or, in Becca Puglisi's case, an emotion that she dreads in real life is a perfect tool in fiction.

That feeling: insecurity.

Puglisi explains how the various manifestations of insecurity in a character can inspire ample empathy in readers in a post on her Writers Helping Writers blog.

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