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Character Tests

A friend and I were emailing about characters in our fiction. I commented that I have a test for characters in my stories: Does each significant character have a humanizing internal non-defining characteristic that has nothing to do with the plot?I apply that to everything from short stories to novels. For the longer works like …

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