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Writing Excuses 7.29: The Villain Problem

Writing Excuses

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How to Make Your Hero More Interesting

A sense of humor can draw at the audience's attention is actually to give them a sense of humor. The other one that I find helps is having a passion that is outside the conflict yeah particularly when that passion is then put into jeopardy unexpectedly by the conflict yepYeah speaking on that passion it kind of goes a bit deeper than that they should have a life and make them live and breathe before the story starts. For your writing prompt what I want you to do is to take a hero and give him a hobby and give him something that he loves that is a living thing okay and then put those in jeopardy unexpectedly.

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