The Dullest Journey?

When someone asks for advice on how to develop a character for their story, I often tell them to write slice-of-life flash-fiction about the character. The idea is that by spending time with the character while they do mundane or everyday things, we get to know them a little better.

I’ve done this in the past, but I don’t feel like I did it enough when I started writing the Lost Dogs series, and I wish I had. It’s also been over two years now that I’ve been working on Lost Dogs, and I haven’...