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Developing characters is a strange thing. In the beginning they are abstract and I wonder how to move on from there.

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Characters
Beginning
Move
Strange
Wonder
Moving
Character
Abstract
Thing
Developing

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