There’s no hard-and-fast rule as far as I know – if there is, I missed it years ago – regarding how many characters you should or should not use in your stories. Some writers wonder whether they’ve overdone things when it comes to populating a single work – I know I have.
I raise this point because on a clearout blitz a couple of weeks ago when cleaning the keyboard was simply not challenging enough, I happened on a character list produced by the editor of my latest series title. To my surprise
