By Cher'ley for Women on Writing

While looking through Facebook photos, I noticed the different hairstyles of my friends. Hairstyles have certainly changed over the years; my all time favorite—the layered cut. The "Shag", the long shag, the short shag, it didn't matter as long as there were lots of layers. I like layers.

Cakes come in layers and we layer clothes. Make-up (which I don't care much for) is layered and bricks,to build a nice house, are layered. My life is multi-layered and yours is too. 
Characters in a novel or even a short story need to be multi- layered.

Think about the character in the book you're reading or in the one you're writing, how many layers does the character have? What are the obstacles?... More...