I get to know them by writing about them. There's a post somewhere back in my archives (I can't find it right now, and it's late and I need to go to bed) where I put up the first, second, and third drafts of Mildmay's first meeting with Ginevra. And it's perfectly plain that I didn't know him at all the first time.
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Date: 2007-07-11 03:51 am (UTC)I get to know them by writing about them. There's a post somewhere back in my archives (I can't find it right now, and it's late and I need to go to bed) where I put up the first, second, and third drafts of Mildmay's first meeting with Ginevra. And it's perfectly plain that I didn't know him at all the first time.
I revise a lot.