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Writing Excuses 6.29: Character Foils

Writing Excuses

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Late Eclipses by Sean McGuire

In my Hugo award winning short story, I gave the main character a brother who had very good reasons for having rivalry with her. And that created a conflict through the thing and allowed them to act as foils for each other. But one of the reasons that I created that was because she was too nice on her own without someone to needle her. Right. We're full disclosure. This is the... Narrated by Hugo award-winning Mary Robinette Kewal. She just blushed the same color as her hair. Yeah, it's we've married with old monochromatic. It's awesome.

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