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I’ve been thinking a lot about characterisation (particularly from an author’s perspective) over the past two week – the reason being that I had a dream where the basic premise of a time-travel story played out like an immersive film, and when I woke up, I became obsessed with plotting the book that I will write based on this very vivid dream.

Now, this isn’t the entire reason for my obsession with characterisation (as you may notice, my r...