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1495: Making Time and Space for a Creative Endeavor with Chelsea Fagan

So Money with Farnoosh Torabi

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The Importance of Character in Contemporary Fiction

I wanted a lot of the work to really be on the page. I have a hard time believing in character is really as competent or as high-achieving as they say they are if we're not able to see it. Sometimes work can be boring on the page, and so I did intentionally choose a job that's more interesting than restoring old shadows into hotels. A reviewer pointed out that it's nice to have a heroine who is very self-aware and understands her own motivations. Even when she does bad things kind of understands that they're bad and doesn't have to have people tell her.

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