171 How to Raise the Emotional Stakes in your Novel with Stephanie Dethlefs
The Rebel Author Podcast
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The Biggest Mistakes That Authors Make When Creating the Protagonist's Emotional Journey
The biggest mistake is ignoring it all together. That's the biggest mistake because then what you have is a character who's just reacting to the things that are happening around them for no reason. So if something happens in one scene and the character has feelings about it, that's going to drive their decisions in the next scene. And that kind of emotional cause and effect is what readers tap into and go, Oh, well, either I would have really felt the same way and done the same things, or I would have felt the sameway and done something completely different. Or, you know, it's all about how we put ourselves into the mind of the protagonist and ask, even if it
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