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Writing Excuses 10.29: Why Should My Characters Fail Spectacularly?

Writing Excuses

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The Power of Failure

A really good book often mirrors these try-fail cycles with the failures in the middle coming back to a moment at the end that is a success. The things that they are trying and failing on are related to the goals that we set up at the beginning. And I've got a good example of this, Star Wars, the original Star Wars. We get to see Luke not trusting in the force. He has a fail cycle. It may seem silly, but the first time I saw the movie and Ben's voice comes to Luke and says, use the force, I got chills. They set that up just right.

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