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Writing Excuses 9.25: Adjusting Character Sympathy

Writing Excuses

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How to Characterize a Hero

George R.R. Martin plays with this sympathy bar just like crazy in his stories, he says. The really sympathetic people that start off by the end, they're either dead or unsympathetic. Putting you inside of someone's head automatically makes them more sympathetic.

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