Destroy your life; then put it back together. You'll get great material, meet some fascinating characters and — side benefit — the skills you develop will give you greater compassion, insight and range with the people you create on the page — or run into off of it.

Jerry Stahl
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In a world where everything you have is being digitally stored in a database, it is easy to see how valuable character development would be. It's even easier to see how an individual with a robust imagination and a creative mind could benefit from a character-driven career. However, there is a dark side to developing a particular type of character. The idea that we can destroy our lives and then rebuild them into something better makes the idea of character development feel like it's on the darker side.

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