Kathleen Princess asked Katharine McGee:

Which character do you find most difficult to tell his/her story?

Katharine McGee Characters are like children; each has their own strengths and their own difficulties! I don’t really think of any one character as being easier to write than another, but instead, that some types of scenes are easy, and some are more challenging.

For me, the more action in a chapter, the less time it will take to write! It’s easier to tackle a scene when I know the main story point—e.g. two characters are fighting, or discovering a secret, or kissing for the first time. The harder scenes are the vague ones. I groan each time I look at my outline and see a chapter where two characters are “getting to know each other” or “softening toward each other”--I write a lot of enemies-to-lovers, can you tell?! :) Those chapters take more time because the conversation isn’t driving toward any specific point. They’re more nuanced, which means I need to do a lot of thinking before I dive in.

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