Writing Excuses 10.8: Q&A on Character
Writing Excuses
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How to Give a Flawless Character a Growth Arc Without Fundamentally Changing What Made Them Likeable
How do you give a flawed character a growth arc without fundamentally changing what made them likable in the first place? That's an excellent question. I think there are two parts of this question actually that I'm going to drill down into. One is how the kind of reverse of this. A lot of new writers want to start a character with an arc and so they make them thoroughly unlikable at the beginning to have them grow into likeability. So how do you tell a story like that? And the second is also this idea if they're going to grow out of their quirks or whatever, the tragic flaw, the thing that is stopping them that may have made them interesting at the
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