Before focusing on the "we," develop the "I." Characters must have lives, goals, and internal flaws that exist independently of the relationship.
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Fiction operates on compressed timelines. A two-hour movie shows only the "greatest hits" of a relationship: the flirting, the fight, the grand gesture. It never shows the 4,000 mundane Tuesdays of folding laundry or the silent car rides home. Before focusing on the "we," develop the "I