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Writing Emotional Pain: How to Care About Your Protagonist

Story Grid Writing Podcast

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The Controlling Idea - The Short Story I Witnessed by Ed McBayes

The controlling idea is about somebody being exploited and not treatig as a, basically a full human. So i started thinking through him, like, ok, myi i got that for the protagonist of of the scene,. But what about the detective and mikewell, he's a detective. And so everybody just kind of shits on him and gives him all the shit work. A, and then from the standpoint of the am, the antagonist of the scene, the captain or the lieutenant, i i thought about it more in way of like a he sees himself that way because of shame he carries around for the things that he does. It took me probably three days to ly get a

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