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Writing Thought: The Bus Test A little while back I wrote an article about gauging the quality of characters in fiction. The article focuses on one simple test I learned from some colleagues called 'The Bus Test'. Basically, you take a character at any point in a story and hit them with a bus. Then you ask yourself, 'Do I care that a bus just hit this character?" The method is listed on Urban Dictionary, so it has to be legit. Writers use the Bus Test to fix characters, readers use it to know...