Advice and resources for character development

Found these over in this forum thread from helpful resources and sites where the original poster asked folks to share their favorite articles and advice on developing characters.

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  Writing Great Characters: interesting insight into what you need to do to have compelling characters.
  


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  Character Flaws: When is Too Far Too Far? : nice list of character flaws you can use; there is a good discussion on this page about the flaws.
  


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  5 steps to dazzling minor characters (I always like short lists)
  

Are folks still reading advice articles in preparing for NaNo? Or have you gone into pure thinking/planning mode...?

I committed to this late in the game (I joined on the 18th), so I am totally devoting time to reading all of these little snippets. I love how helpful the resources are on this forum!