
Ep. 594: 8 Ways to Avoid Cardboard Characters (and Plot Contrivances While You're At It)
Helping Writers Become Authors
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Seven Tips to Creating a Showdown in Your Story
Writers focus more on the outcome of a character's actions rather than their motive. A character should be respect cted like a real, live human being and not forced to do something she doesn't want to do. Your characters may have no choice about what happens to them but make sure they are reacting in ways that are unique and realistic to themselves.
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