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Writing Excuses 9.26: Adjusting Character Competence

Writing Excuses

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The Tri-Fail Cycle

You see this a lot in the archetype of, for instance, I'm Earth's greatest football player. You go play space football and suddenly you're nothing among the space football players. Or you take something they're good at doing and when they do it in this new realm, it doesn't work anymore. This is like all of the dance movies where, or the ice skating movies where the hockey player gets paired with the... Yes. All of these are following that exact thing.

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