"How does an author create believable characters? Anne Lamott in Bird By Bird compares character creation to the development of a Polaroid or the growth of an individual’s emotional arch —the personality of the character reveals itself over time to the author. In some ways this statement is a misleading to new authors. It implies character development is as easy as one of those crystal growing kits you get as child. Add water to the appropriate collection of minerals and, voilà, geometric shapes precipitate from the solution with no help from the kit owner. I suspect many of us beginning writers don’t have the knowledge to mix the required chemicals to grow our own crystals without blowing up the lab and making a mess."
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