One of the fun things about writing is making up characters who come from different backgrounds and seeing ho far research can take you to make the real. In the old days this meant hours in a library with a check list of what I needed to find out but today it all about writing and google. The character can be given the right speech patterns, a believable background all with a few searches. You can even get background by going to video and ‘seeing’ what you are writing about and if you place the character in a foreign country to them, you can make it even more believable.
A benefit of this is the travelling you actually do and customs you find out about you would never know.
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