But notes don't tell you anything about a novel's voice, which is the most important thing about it, and which you won't discover until you actually start to write.
I couldn't make sense of her without bringing in the rest of her family, too - her little brother, her mother and father. Each of them has their own problem to deal with, and what they can't see - though the reader can - is that all of those problems are connected, rooted in their shared past.
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