How to Make a Character More Sympathetic

Sometimes the reason you want a character to be less sympathetic is because they're so good at something else that people start to get annoying annoyed with them. Another way to do this or another reason to do an unsympathetic character is it's a way of making a different character more sympathetic. In John Cleaver books, which we'll be talking about a lot in this podcast,. You can make somebody appear more or less sympathetic by who you put around. It may change from book to book, not necessarily relating to that character's arc. The muddy schlocky color in the middle need to look like. And so I adjust what's around him.