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Introduce the actual plot? You may or may not actually have a problem. You have a character who is inherently more interesting than the others, she will naturally dominate the part of the story fo...
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System
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2019-12-08T11:13:51Z (about 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision
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Ville Niemi
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2019-12-08T11:13:51Z (about 5 years ago)
Introduce the actual plot? You may or may not actually have a problem. You have a character who is inherently more interesting than the others, she will naturally dominate the part of the story focussing on character introductions and set up. One solution is indeed to balance the characters but you can also just move forward and introduce plot(s) that directly involves the other characters. If it is interesting the characters will be more interesting and the story will balance out. If you naturally started with one character dominating, the easy way would be to keep it up by splitting the story to four parts each of which is dominated by a single character. A spotlight approach where each target is illuminated in its own turn. Naturally you may also have on actual problem and need to really balance the characters but other answers will almost certainly cover that well enough so I won't.
#1: Imported from external source
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System
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2019-03-08T14:37:39Z (almost 6 years ago)
Original score: 10