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Getting into the shadows of my cast for layer 2.

Caroline Donahue
Jan 24
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image: Attention, Sam Hewitt

How do we get to know our characters?

I find this process looks very much in fiction the way it looks in real life: one can’t expect to understand a new acquaintance completely after a single meeting. Trying to force private information out of someone is more likely to cause them to clam up than to inspire them to reveal their deepest, darkest secrets.

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