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Characters and plot are inextricably linked. You can’t REALLY have one without
the other. They take up the same space. If a story has no characters, then
nothing happens and there’s no actual story. If a story has no plot, then again
nothing moves, nothing happens. No story.
The link goes even deeper than “things need to happen and there need to be
people to do those things.” How you characterize the people in you
