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Choose a protagonist from your story.
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‘I began to imagine my characters as the Scooby Gang’
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‘Let your characters speak; they will tell you things about themselves’
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‘To create characters the reader will care about, first you have to get to know them’
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‘For me, the most seductive characters in fiction have always been the strangers’
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‘I like writing to feel like the striving for an utterly accurate record of a pin-sharp memory’
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‘If you want to shake up your writing, why not consider using a neglected perspective – second person’
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‘The more you read, the more scope you see for experimenting’
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‘Establish where the narrator stands in relation to the events of your story’
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‘I often find the best voices choose stories only they could tell.’
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‘Writing in the first person is like putting on a pair of old slippers. They’re comfortable, but you can’t go everywhere in them’
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‘The only rule about the use of viewpoint and tense is that there is no rule’
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