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Great ideas from Fiction Notes, a great blog by Author Darcy Pattison. Check out these eight ways to enrich your character here. Darcy's first idea:

1. Change the name. The apocryphal story is that Gone with the Wind’s Scarlett O’Hara was named Pansy in the first draft. Sometimes a simple name change will resonate throughout a text.

Another post, Show-Dont-Tell, gives good advice on this writing 101 topic for beginning fiction writers.