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How to Ensure Your Characters Aren’t Just Puppets Being Manipulated Through a Plot

The Shit No One Tells You About Writing

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Subverting the Mystery Genre

The way that I tend to write is very much like a tapestry woven together so it doesn't feel very natural for me to only have two voices or even one voice that's really challenging for me actually. Having all of those women there's basically four different men who could basically end up being the victim that weekend and so in order to kind of subvert that typical mystery plot where when it opens you know who's dead typically in order to subvert that I needed you to have a lot of voices coming in at one time.

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