: About Me

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My passion is ...

at odds with my hermitude.

I know too much about ...

staying up late.

My parents always told me ...

things they don't believe anymore.

My childhood ambition ...

was to be Pope.

My favorite memory ...

is from someone else's life.

Why I write ...

luck of the draw....

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Joseph Conrad, wind in the trees, wind in the trees.

My first job ...

haunts me still.

My best moment ...

may come again, if I'm lucky.

My inspiration ...

isn't something i wait around for.

Arts & Humanities > Writing Tips Breathing life into your fictional characters

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Here are four ways to bring depth and interest to the characters that fill your fiction writing. 1. Background Know all the details of your character's life- what they had for breakfast as a child, what size their underwear is, how they react to every kind of stress. Write something about the same character each day for a week, a paragraph or two on likes, dislikes, or small scenes from their life outside your main story. None of this may go into your story per se, but if you read it, and amend it for inconsistencies, it will help you to understand your character's motivations and ways of ...

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