How the Pros Deepen Colourful Character Traits with Criminal Motivations in Fiction Writing

Sean P. Durham
5 min readApr 18, 2024

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“Fiction allows us to do something that nothing else quite does. It allows us to enter fully into the lives of other human beings… The fake characters we read about will evaporate like the morning dew, but the real ones, the true ones, will haunt us for the rest of our days.”
― Katherine Patterson

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Sean P. Durham

Berlin Notes — Creative Writing about art, Life, photography & cats. https://seandurham.eu