How Do You Write a First Draft of a Character?

"Being able to give her those multi-dimensional layers was really important to me yeah and again what Kristen just said is so important because you want the reader to like her" "So at no point are you going oh no she's a terrible person I don't want to read anything more about it rightI want to have the reader feel empathy even if they don't agree with the decisions that are made right" 'She has good reasons for doing whatshe's doing even if you think what she's doing is ultimately wrong' Kristen says. ''After I get to about 30,000 word mark I'll often sketch out drawings very bad drawings because I'm not an artist of

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