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Story Grid Writing Podcast

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The Crisis Moments in Your Story That Define Character

Crisis moments in your story that reveal character. If a character decides to stay in the tree that says a lot about that kind of person so if they choose to jump and try and find a limb to go elsewhere that shows that they're very courageous or the third option would be maybe they're really smart. So it's those crisis moments in your stories that define who your characters are like at the beginning of Casablanca Rick you know his friend is arrested for gambling he lets him arrest him I don't care that decision says who Rick is.

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