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Meg Mason on Writing, Developing Taste, and Tolerance

The Daily Stoic

CHAPTER

How to Write a Suffering Character in a Novel

"I set out to write a suffering character," she says. "The reason that i was in trouble always at school, or the reason that i didn't do as well in my exams as i should have" The book is about Martha and her family's struggle with their daughter who has been diagnosed with terminal cancer.

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