on Helping Writers become Authors:
Complex characters are the beating heart of good fiction.
The simplest and most effective ways to engineer this complexity is to create contrast, and one of the most intuitive tools a writer can use for identifying which contrasting elements are organic to any given character or story situation is… shadow theory.
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