When a character strikes me, I try to think about what I like (or in some cases despise) and why. Studying characters that resonate and hearing what others think about them helps me craft better characters for my stories, and it makes me think about what people value, when and how they take action, and what any of it means at the end of the story. Sometimes character study is a more socially acceptable form of gossip, about characters, not […]

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