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Writing Excuses 10.5: What Do You Mean My Main Character is Boring?

Writing Excuses

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The Cost of Accountability

When you take an action, it comes with a cost. One of the main things I did is I added a prologue in which we dig into things that had happened in this past. And some pretty awful events happen there that make him not want to be a law man anymore. So if you have your character doing things, looking at whether or not there's a cost to that is going to make it more interesting because that immediately gives you a source of conflict.

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