How Fiction Works Writing Meme - Day Twenty

20 - An absence of characterization can be as powerful as characterization in knowing a character. Agree? Disagree? Any examples in your own writing?

Disagree. It can be useful as a sort of 'blank slate' for readers to fill up with their own impressions, perhaps, but it doesn't help anyone to know a character.

Fic: The House of Conrí

Title: The House of Conrí
Fandom: original fic
Rating: Teen
Word Count: 422
Prompt: For the 30 days of fiction meme, prompt #18, the name “Thomas Daniel”
Summary: Sometimes names are just names. Sometimes they are symbolic. Sometimes they're more than that.
Warnings: violence

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