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  1. 01. Step Into Their World: Where Fiction Writing and Caretaking Converge

    I am a control freak, which makes it difficult to be a writer or a mother or a wife or a…well, you see my point.

    I’ve mostly learned to circumvent this particular quirk, at least when it comes to writing. It’s taken years, but I’m getting better at letting my characters figure out how to behave based on who they are and what they long for.

    Still, the control freak in me resists. Some days Ms. CF spends hours circling me, poking, prodding, jumping on my shoulder to whisper in her harsh, Gollum-y voice, “They’re nobodies. You’re the one writing. Make them do what you want. Make them!”

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