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155. The Tiffany Problem

The Allusionist

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How to Write a Charactercle Tifany

There's so many things to consider when your naming characters in fiction. You can have a charactercle tifaly, but you've really got to put a lot of effort into it. Soa simple technique for dealing with her e. I won't use it. Sometimes i will decide, dam, i would love to have this cartaco tifiny, but i can't. And i'll call her helena or something else, because i just can't do it. A tow tamotrider. But that just perpetuates the tiffany problem,. Because tiffanies don't get represented in these historical contexts, so they stay modern in people's minds.

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