Learning to Write XX

28th January 2007 with 3 Comments

How do you know if, instead of creating a rounded character or a personified trait, you have inadvertently created a caricature?
A caricature is someone who can have no other existence except within the special atmosphere of the story. So what you must do is take this figure and try transferring him or her out of [...]

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