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First, make sure character has different concerns and preferences and attitudes about things.

Then, each character would naturally notice or focus on different aspects of the building.

And if two or more characters were to linger on the same aspect, they would have different opinions of it.

If the characters notice different things, and have different opinions of things, that will keep their descriptions fresh and distinct. And their descriptions will not only describe the setting, but also characterize the characters.

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: To my knowledge (not a lawyer), you don't have any legal responsibility to attribute the ideas in your actual text, unless you're directly quoting or paraphrasing. It's very rare (but not

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: Stories about people who went from rags-to-riches-to-rags and stayed there? I need suggestions for stories I can read to get inspiration on how to tackle a nonfiction rags-to-riches-to-rags story

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: Can the same book appear in a different series? A book series is a sequence of books having certain characteristics in common that are formally identified together as a group. Book series

: To my knowledge (not a lawyer), you don't have any legal responsibility to attribute the ideas in your actual text, unless you're directly quoting or paraphrasing. It's very rare (but not

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