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by Alexandria | 4 November 2016 · 1:11 pm

No Demons, No Saints: Creating Realistic Characters

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Tagged as Creative Self Deception and the Healthy Mind, creative writing, Daniel Goleman, denial, evolving characters, flat characters, irony, NaNoWriMo, Positive Illusions, round characters, Shelly E Taylor, static characters, The Psychology of Self Deception, Vital Lies Simple Truths, writing fiction

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