Write a letter to better know your characters
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6 min readMar 3, 2018
There is a very old song that goes: “I’m going to sit right down and write myself a letter, and make believe it came from you…”
Good commercial fiction has two important parts: a strong plot and interesting characters. In my novels, I may come up with an idea for a plot, but almost always, it starts with a character, and the more complex and intriguing that character is, the better…
