25/6/21

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Welcome to this exciting post about characterization!

This is how I frame characterizing, as an author who considers themself to write very character-driven stories. Plot is all about what it does for the people in the stories I write, rather than the characters serving the plot (or the setting driving things, etc). It is not better or worse than any other way to write a story, it's just what works for me and the style I've developed over the last eleven ish years of publishing fic (yeehaw!).

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