Writing Excuses 7.22: Microcasting
Writing Excuses
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How to Make Your Character Powerful
If your character has a great deal of power what do you do to make sure that they're not too perfect or that they can't solve problems just too easily? Prep tonight. Go read the essay I wrote on how limitations are so much more interesting than the powers themselves and think about why you're making your character so powerful. Put the stakes outside the realm in which they're powerful. Yeah. Superman can't be hurt but Lois Lane can be and Superman can't been everywhere. That story seed that made you want to do that should have some sort of conflict in it inherently if there wasn't you don't have a story.
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