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Writing Excuses 9.25: Adjusting Character Sympathy

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How to Make Your Characters Unsympathetic

The people who are always right are the ones that you're so annoyed by. The person who is blind to some key aspect of their lives, we can't stand that in a character. If someone who has formerly trusted this character now no longer trusts them, sometimes that backfires on you because we have all been betrayed. And so if you want to make your characters unsympathetic, then you do a lot of the opposites of what we're talking about. Someone who does something that's totally selfish. You have someone who is invulnerable. They never fail. Yeah. Well, and lack of self awareness. Yes.

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