Writing Magazine

CROWD CONTROL

The characters in your stories are your creations and are entirely subject to your will. They do whatever you want them do, whenever you tell them to. They sit quietly in the corners of your mind, awaiting their cue to troop onto the stage of your story and say the perfect lines you’ve lovingly crafted for them. Right?

Well, if that’s the case, you’ve got much more co-operative characters than me. Mine wake me up at 4am and won’t let me go back to sleep until I’ve

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