Want to change your cardboard characters into a 3-D cast kids will connect with as friends? Craft a Top Secret Detective File to get the inside scoop on what makes your characters come to life. You’ll learn how to interview your characters, use a Word Wall to impact your characters’ personality, and brainstorm ideas for your main characters and secondary characters alike!

Video 1: Putting the Top Secret Detective File together

Video 2: Brainstorming your character’s personality traits

Video 3: Brainstorming your character’s name

Video 4: Interviewing your character

Video 5: Creating and implementing a Word Wall

Video 6: Using your Top Secret Detective File

Nancy I. Sanders is the bestselling and award-winning children’s author of over 100 books. Some of her books are for little kids. Some are for big kids (like adults).

Some won awards. Some are out-of-print.

Many are with big publishers. Many aren’t.

A few didn’t earn her a penny. A few earned enough to help buy a new house.

Half of her books are for the general market. Half are for the Christian market.

Nancy’s passion is to help other writers (like you) build a successful writing career (like she has). If she can, you can, too!