Bid'nes Up Front, Pah'ty In The Back

A life in fiction doesn't really differ from anyone you see on the news, if you think about it. To both a reader and writer alike, the character is a living, breathing individual. A character such as Tori is as real to you and me as Paris Hilton is, maybe more so (Tori, you see, isn't a stuck up little… well, you get the point). The reader determines just how real a character is, though, no matter how much energy, effort, blood, sweat and tears into said character. As a writer, you only get a...