
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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How Interactions Between Character and Setting Shape Character
setting really does inform character and yet it's something that you don't see people talking about a lot right so I had one of my sisters the oldest one just go away for a semester and then she came back home. They have varying degrees also of like voiciness that kind of southern voiciness yeah. For terra june and clementine they actually all don't even get to the same place until probably about page 75 or so of the novel. All of a sudden they're in their family of origin which I think causes them to react quite differently than they would as kind of their grown-up selves me and my sisters and brother get together we kind of fall back into those roles
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