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Writing Excuses 6.29: Character Foils

Writing Excuses

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How to Make Your Heroine More Engaging, Interesting, and Sympathetic

The villain in this book is almost a father figure for the main character, John. This has been a great podcast. I think since we're, Mary's been bragging a little bit. You're going to be the, no, we love you, Mary. You were rightly proud of your short story. Would you give us a writing prompt? Yes. What I want you to do is come up with a list of five character pairs and then pick the one that is most interesting to you and write about them. All right. Now go right.

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