Your antagonist exists only when the hero’s in the room, and it shows. Give Horace a life offstage and watch your whole book get scarier.
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Your Mother Is Not A Character (Until You Make Her One)
Writing real people is the hardest character work there is: you know too much and can say too little. Craft rules for memoirists putting family on the page.