Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
Douglas William Jerrold
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I believe the most intricate plot won't matter much to readers if they don't care about the characters, especially in a series. So I try to focus hard on making each character, whether villain or hero, have an interesting flaw that readers can relate to.
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