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Third person allows a deeper exploration of the relationships between characters. We can see their misunderstandings and hear what they think about each other. We can create a more complex structure with various story threads running parallel.

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Juliet Marillier
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 27
Novelist
Writer
Dunedin
New Zealand
Running
Relationships
Misunderstanding
Stories
Deeper
Exploration
Character
Various
Thread
Persons
Structure
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Person
Characters
Complexes
Misunderstandings
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Hear
Complex
Threads
Thinking
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Parallel
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Don't you long for something different to happen, something so exciting and new it carries you along with it like a great tide, something that lets your life blaze and burn so the whole world can see it?
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You may be your own best helper, if you choose the right path.
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My advice to aspiring writers of fantasy trilogies or series is that each book needs two main plots. There's the 'big story', the over-arching grand plot of the entire series, and there is the complete-in-itself, one-book plot.
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Good and bad shade and sunlight, there's but a hair's breath between them. It's all one in the end.
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There are technical tricks that may help you create more effective characters. My approach to characterization is not at all technical. I can't really analyze how I do it, but I am sure of one thing. To write convincing characters, you must possess the ability to think yourself into someone else's skin.
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Come, dear heart. Lean on me and let us walk this path together.
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Wake the sleeper must, and confront his fears, or risk being lost in the dark places of the mind forever.
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Our strength comes from that magic, from the earth and the sky, from the fire and the water. Fly high, swim deep, give back to the earth what she gives you.
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Why should I be polished and improved like goods for sale? I might not even want to marry! And besides, I have many skills. I can read and write and play the flute and harp. Why should I change to please some man? If he doesn’t like me the way I am, then he can get some other girl for his wife.
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The world is simple, I think, in its essence. Life, death, love, hate. Desire, fulfillment. Magic.
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You will find the way, daughter of the forest. Through grief and pain, through many trials, through betrayal and loss, your feet will walk a straight path.
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My world was changing, and I was not ready for it.
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Death, of course, should not be feared, but awaited with certain wonder. To die was to step across a threshold into a new world, unknown, unimaginable.
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With respect, said Red, and his voice had gone so quiet people hushed each other to hear him, my tale is yet unfinished you should hear me out. And it is her answer I have come to hear, not yours.
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Water and stone Flesh and bone Night and morn Rose and thorn Tree and wind Heart and mind
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I thought of betrayal and how it came so easily - in a word, a glance, a gesture.
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The most powerful weapon is hope.
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His thoughts inhabit a different plane from those of ordinary men the simplest interpretation of that is to call him crazy.
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A wonder tale can be truer than true, I said. I had learned (...) that the deepest kind of truth can be found in the strangest and wildest of stories. One may not meet a fire-breathing dragon on the way to the well. One may not encounter an army of toothed snakes in the woodshed. That does not make the wisdom in those tales any less real.
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