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Notes on Character (1)

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Following on from last week’s post, I want to look more closely at page 3 of the early draft of the novel I sent you, in order to talk about the list in it. You might remember it’s from Carole’s chapter and I’m going to talk about how you should be careful of making your character’s mouthpieces for your own politics - when they are not you.

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