“Love and understanding are the missing ingredients in most slushpile stories. If you don’t understand your character, you can’t make her believable, and if you don’t care about her, the reader won’t either.”
– Damon Knight, Creating Short Fiction
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I see a second side to this. I tend to write characters who write their own memoirs, just my style. I also write characters who lie to themselves. Often I can’t believe them because I want the reader to know my protagonist is lying to everyone including themselves.
I see a second side to this. I tend to write characters who write their own memoirs, just my style. I also write characters who lie to themselves. Often I can’t believe them because I want the reader to know my protagonist is lying to everyone including themselves.
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