Consider how your approach to crafting point of view will influence your story and your readers' impression of your character.

In Into the Woods and on his online courses John Yorke recommends asking 10 questions to check you've got your story straight – read them here.

When it comes to writing the “other,” what questions are we not asking?

Has somebody accused you of writing about them when you don't even know them? Sometimes your fiction can trigger people when life imitates fiction.