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What are your favorite ways in which you’ve made your characters more life-like?

One of my favorites has been brainstorming the character motivators for both the main protagonist and all the side characters. I’m super passionate about giving each side character their own backstory, motivations, personality type, quirks, list of traits in other characters that cause friction with who they are, and unique voice. Part of me has even thought about writing my current WIP (or at least the scenes wherein they appear) once each from every secondary character’s POV to keep them from becoming flat and of the essence of cardboard. 🙂 Probably a bad idea, but anyways.

Also one question… is it weird to have a blind character (from a factory accident), a character with chronic pain, and a character with Down Syndrome all within a family of 7? Is that too much and pushing things past the realistic? I really, really want to, but I can’t decide if it’s a little overboard, lol. However, each of those things do contribute to the plot of my story and are not just there to be there, if you know what I mean.