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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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Is This a Tool for Developing Characters?

"I grew up in this environment that was just very traditional and conservative and religious in a lot of ways," says author. "So I used that kind of environment and then said okay when these women grew up in that environment what might they look like 30 years later?" She adds: "If we think about ourselves as human beings if we were born somewhere else perhaps to different parents it would hugely shape who we are"

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