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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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Playing Around With Family of Origin Dynamics

Playing around with the family of origin dynamics was really fun for me and something else to consider for our listeners when you are looking at developing character is a character's misbelief. I think with that undercurrent of religion because in the deep south you're gonna be asked if you go to church if you don't. One of my friends a good friend of mine who's a teaching friend she's an atheist and she said her next door neighbors were just inviting her left to right to churchYou know, so I thought okay there's gonna be that element here what did they believe about themselves about God about themselves in relation to God and then to a community around them  that was really interesting

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