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I get it. I finally get what everyone's talking about when they start talking about their characters telling them things.

I have three MCs, two girls and a boy, and I had a hard time getting inside the head of the boy when he's an adult (the scenes from childhood were less of a problem). He's the least like me, and I just didn't understand him, so I haven't written any scenes from his point of view.

Then, last night, I was thinking about the scene I'm writing today instead of sleeping, and I got it. He helps her on with her coat. Of *course* he helps her on with her coat. He's in loooove with her. And a lot more mature about it than I thought originally, a lot less like infatuation and a lot more like love.

Shame he's going to get jerked around so horribly before she believes it.

So I'm not all the way inside his head, and he needs a sub-plot and I need to spend some time with just him and not in the context of my other two MCs in the introduction, but it helped.