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Q&A Building empathy with a character and interest in a story

Your problem is that you don't know your character. Until you know what drives the protagonist, you can't know his obstacles and so you can't establish the tension you need. I had a book recommend...

posted 9y ago by Thom‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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#2: Initial revision by user avatar Thom‭ · 2019-12-08T04:52:57Z (almost 5 years ago)
Your problem is that you don't know your character. Until you know what drives the protagonist, you can't know his obstacles and so you can't establish the tension you need.

I had a book recommended on this site called Monkeys and Typewriters that's helping me to understand this.

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2015-12-23T12:06:38Z (almost 9 years ago)
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