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Highlights:Get out a pack of index cards, write the name of each character on the correct number of cards, and if you’d like, on a few extras — I’ll make eighteen for Elsie and Mike, ten or eleven for Frisco and Annabelle.

Once the names are on the cards, pull out a card set — I start with the secondary viewpoint characters, because this lets me let the main story float for a while, building up momentum.

With one set of character cards in hand, start writing down one-sentence scene ideas, one per card. Be a little crazy — just write down all the fun things that you can think of that could happen to the character you have in hand, keeping in mind that all scenes require conflict and change.

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