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Ask the Write Questions with Dolly Alderton and China Moo-Young

BBC Writers

CHAPTER

How to Write a Good Story

For me certainly it really helps when I start casting thinking about characters. You just need to meet up with the one that you know, the one that's closest to your character and have a chat with him. When we cast now an Amara, you know, tweet those characters especially now because we didn't know,. We knew she was going to be from the North of England and working class, but we didn't have a specific person in mind. So you know, we knew that they might be Scottish or they might be in Mancunio or from Yorkshire. That definitely fed into their new rewriting for Marley, didn't you? Yeah, definitely. I really like doing that

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