You might want to try writing fiction again, though I know now isn’t the time for you to take on anything else. After you’re back in Australia, maybe give it a try.

My only fictional effort in recent times was first blogging effort, Another Ten Cents, I attempted to chronicle, in a humorous manner, a typical day in the life of an unsuccessful office worker.

Although that story was loosely based largely on my own personal experience, the narrator was a fictional character.

Apart from that, I have not really attempted any form of fictional writing in recent times.
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You have an excellent understanding. Are you writing fiction? If not, maybe you should be!

I like the point you make about how not all of the traits of the character need to be revealed in an explicit manner to the reader.

As each of us goes about our business in real life, we generally pick up or become aware of some of the background and character traits of those with whom we interact at various levels. But rarely if ever do we learn everything there is to know about them. Nor would we need to or want to, since there are some character traits about those with whom we interact that are simply not relevant to us.

Given this, along with a desire to portray characters in a manner which is realistic and relatable to our readership, not to mention the goal of keeping readers focused on the main plat, I would certainly understand why it would not be either necessary or desirable for authors to reveal every detail about the background of each of their characters.

That said, I can certainly understand the need for authors themselves to understand their own characters (or, at least, the main characters) at a deeper level since this would help the author to maintain a consistent and realistic portrayal of the character throughout the story.
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