Plot Driven Characters or Character Driven Plot?

As I’ve written about before, my dad was a writer. His writing technique was definitely character driven. Also as I’ve mentioned before, my dad seemed to get bogged down in his characters. Never going much beyond index cards full of characterizations. I’ve been taking Masterclass lessons on writing from some of the greats. As my

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My dad was a writer. As far as I know, he wrote till the day he died. Only he didn’t write. He had all these cards with character descriptions. He had grand ideas. He didn’t have the words on paper. He did have one play that was written up in Time magazine and performed at