I'm finding that with my new WIP my cast of characters is constantly growing, and I'm not sure what the final count will be. Sure, only some are major, some are minor, and some are very minor. But I've never worked with larger casts like these. And they are all close nit, too. It's about actors in a theater, and you probably have from ten to fifteen people in the troupe, right?
What is the safe way to write something with so many characters? Do I make up the ones I deem "Important" and the others are just there when need be, or do I learn who they all are, and just have a very large cast?
I tend not to write with more than three or four characters, at a time. There may be more characters in the story, but they are never all together. Here, they're almost always all together.
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