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Anything pertaining to developing the details associated with characters in your writing.

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First person POV "mom:" vs. "mother"

This may seem like a duplicate of Changing the way one addresses a character in a dialogue to create variation, but it the answers there did not apply. My question is: When writing in the first perso …
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How do I avoid making all my characters speak like me?

I can't tell you what to write for the character's speech patterns, but I can say that the best way to learn how to write a character's voice that isn't your own is to think like that character would, …
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Writing the same character in two different perspectives?

In a novel I am writing, there are three main characters. One a 16-year-old, another an 11-year-old, and a third a 12-year-old. The story is in first person, being told from their three perspectives. …
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