How Real Are Your Characters?

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How real are your characters? We definitely want them to be real to our readers, and I think most authors accept them as real beings as we write.

Recently, one of my critique partners had commented to another that a scene she’d written didn’t seem to fit with the police detective protagonist’s job. That the people he was interviewing were too far removed from the “find the killer” plot. The author’s response was that her stories are a combination of police procedur...