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Writing Excuses 9.26: Adjusting Character Competence

Writing Excuses

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The Power of Competence

"If you move down one of the slider bars, competence is a great one," he says. "As it becomes better at something, you can show difficulties because they are not capable of fixing this problem yet." He was trying to write a horror piece and said out loud: I'm trying to find a way to make this character incompetent. But his friend Mary told him that's exactly what he needed.

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