• The Power of Likability in a Status|Obsessed World by Mitch Prinstein🔍
• Reading Flawed Protagonists🔍
• How to Be Powerful🔍
• What's up with needing characters to be likable?🔍
• The Power of the Unlikeable Protagonist🔍
• How to make a serious character interesting or likeable?🔍
• Novels We Like Can Have an Unlikable Cast🔍
• Do they make dramas with likable characters anymore?🔍

The Power of Likability in a Status-Obsessed World by Mitch Prinstein

We don't stop with our bodies either. We want our homes, cars and even our job titles to look a certain way. We live in a materialistic culture, and we are ...

Reading Flawed Protagonists: Relatability Versus Likeability

“Often in literary criticism, writers are told that a character isn't likable, as if a character's likability is directly proportional to ...

How to Be Powerful, Likable, and Female: Learn From Jenna Lyons

That's actually caring. Striving for likability may carry a whiff of fakeness — just look at Anne Hathaway, who's hated because people think ...

What's up with needing characters to be likable? - K.W. Taylor

If we commit the literary sin of putting a complicated person front and center in a piece of genre fiction, we are asking audiences to read for ...

The Power of the Unlikeable Protagonist - Writer Unboxed

There are few, if any, supporting characters who are any more likeable ... if they'd married other people. If Claire had married someone ...

How to make a serious character interesting or likeable?

Stories borrow heavily from morality roles; we have a hero that is acting pretty selflessly, and a villain that is acting pretty selfishly. In ...

Novels We Like Can Have an Unlikable Cast

Whether characters are likable or admirable is not a primary concern ... If you stood back and judged every character in fiction that killed ...

Do they make dramas with likable characters anymore?

My most important problem with the concept is the notion that characters are either likeable, or unlikeable. There is in fact a broad middle ...

How to write a likeable bastard | Writing Forums

In order to get people to like him, it's the actions and the logic of the actions that the character takes I believe to be the key to keeping ...

Is it possible to make a promiscuous character likeable?

Anyways what I'm trying to say is, will my character be unlikeable because of how willing he is to have sex with multiple people, even if its ...

Why do video game protagonists seemingly always need ... - NeoGAF

Games being afraid to stray away from making "likeable" characters is partly to blame for the mediocrity and boring protagonists we get in games ...

How to Write an Antagonist That Everyone Loves - The Write Practice

And one of those things was a likable antagonist. But why write a likable antagonist? I realized that the stories I loved the most showed character depth.

Why Likable People Are More Successful | Inc.com

Likability is crucial in helping people feel better about themselves. And if those reasons aren't sufficient -- if you need a bottom-line, goal- ...

It May Be Time to Rethink Being Likeable - Karen's Blogs

It takes energy and effort to exude likeability and often forces us to develop a false self, which pretends to think and feel one way when we ...

Do characters have to be likeable? - Caleb Woodbridge

A much-debated question among writers and readers is whether characters in a story have to be “likeable”. Some people can't enjoy stories ...

How is Thanos a likable character? | Writing Question - Tapas Forum

... if you buy into some degree of his murder half the population plan. ... people dependent on him that he claimed to love. He's just doing ...

Likable versus unlikable women: The great debate.

... if likable characters are only ever conforming.* We used to say that it should be OK for female characters to be unlikable. Now likability ...

How likeable does a narrator need to be? Showing 1-14 of 14

If you know of people who like to read complex stories with morally unclear, not-necessarily likable main characters, then write for that person ...

5 Ways to Make a Character More Likable - YouTube

I hate when I make an OC that looks a bit like someone else's OC, because then people will accuse me of stealing even though it was a 100% ...

Thread: Does Fitzgerald create any likable characters?

... we can start to evaluate objectively whether Gatsby is really all right. I don't think he a perfect human being, but I do think he is likable.