From The Backlist: Reflections on Minor Characters

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As you know from last week, currently I’m deep in revising The Wall Of Night #4 (working title: The Chaos Gate.)

With another About The Characters post due on Thursday, it got me thinking about the importance of minor characters in storytelling, as well as the major ones.

And that reminded me (eventually!) that I’d penned a post on the topic away back in 2012 (gulp!), shortly after The Gathering of the Lost came out.

On tracking it down, I decided it was just as relevant now, as then...