The voice tends to come first and then everything else follows. It's never worked for me to think, here's a character and they should have this kind of voice, let me try to force that. If I can't tap into a character's voice, I can't really write the character... (Susan Choi)

The voice tends to come first and then everything else follows. It's never worked for me to think, here's a character and they should have this kind of voice, let me try to force that. If I can't tap into a character's voice, I can't really write the character...

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