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A Creative Writing Exercise

A Creative Writing Exercise

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Phil Christman
Feb 13, 2025
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I am trying to knuckle down and write this novel that I keep talking about (see footnote 2 here), and one thing I have found helpful in the past is to do little questionnaires about the main characters — the sort of thing you find in a lot of basic mall-bookstore books about creative writing. This morning, I generated my own such questionnaire, and thou…

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