![]() Because the Smythe-Smiths are such a large family, I had to come up with eight separate nuclear families. ![]() This meant I had to figure out how many brothers and sisters each character had and where they were in the birth order. Families and family relationships are very important in my writing, so when I develop characters for a book I have to understand their family structure.I settled on the girls from 1824/1825, in part because I wanted to be able to spread the quartet of books over two seasons. I discovered that I had written about musicales taking place in 1816, 1819, 1824, and 1825. Once I did that, I had to decide which set of Smythe-Smith cousins I was going to write about. I had included Smythe-Smith characters in so many books that I had to take several days just to compile all of my previous mentions. ![]() Not of history or of music, but rather of my own novels.
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