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Q&A My cool character is doing nothing for the plot. How do I deal with him?

To take off on Lauren Ipsum's short, but excellent answer, you have three choices: 1) Re-write your current story so that your "cool" character is a key, perhaps main, character whose importance i...

posted 9y ago by Tom Au‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T02:22:56Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision by user avatar Tom Au‭ · 2019-12-08T02:22:56Z (almost 5 years ago)
To take off on Lauren Ipsum's short, but excellent answer, you have three choices:

1) Re-write your current story so that your "cool" character is a key, perhaps main, character whose importance in the overall story matches his importance in individual scenes.

2) Remove the character from this story and give him a separate story,

3) A hybrid of the two: give him a "limited" part in the current story, in order to set up a "sequel" for him, and make sure your current story connects well to the sequel. His importance then is not for the current story, but for the sequel.

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2015-08-12T21:32:38Z (over 9 years ago)
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