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Her books include Novel Characters and Imagining Virginia Woolf (Princeton).
Not so long ago, Dalrymple acknowledged that some writers – myself included – had advanced travel writing as an alternative to fiction using "the techniques of the novel – developing characters, selecting and tailoring experience into a series of scenes and set pieces, arranging the action so as to give the narrative shape and momentum".
This novel develops characters that would later be seen in the War of Souls trilogy.
Instead, each novel developed the character of Jason in its own way.
Covering the decade to the end of the Nigeria-Biafra war of 1967-70, the novel first develops its characters in a period of peace and - for some - plenty after Nigerian independence in 1960.
Many sorts of writers involved in either plays, novels or other kinds of fictional literature use a back-story to further develop the characters.
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Their true story was transformed into a remarkable novel by Fallada, who developed his characters from the Hampels' Gestapo files, selecting and tailoring his own wartime experience.
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But if the novel had developed her character fully enough to describe, even glancingly, her experience as chattel, well, the whole thing would have come off quite differently.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

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