How to Juggle Lots of Characters

One of the biggest differences between my first novel, Killing the Immortals, and this novel draft I’m almost done with, possibly called Separation, (but who the hell knows right now?) is the number of characters. Killing the Immortals was a lean, sleek bit of writing … very much by design. Considering it was the first novel I’d ever written, and pretty much the first fiction I’d ever really written, I didn’t want to get too complicated with it. It was relatively short, with few quoted chara...