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Writing Excuses 9.25: Adjusting Character Sympathy

Writing Excuses

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How to Make Characters More or Less Sympathetic

Dan Well: One of the great prides of my writing career is that this novella made Larry Korea cry. And he has not become anything good, but you love him anyway. The other two on this scale automatically move the slider up until you hit a certain kind of threshold as we talked about before,. Where they become too superhuman, which will start plunging their sympathy.

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