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36: Putting Your Characters Through Hell

36: Putting Your Characters Through Hell

Update: 2025-03-05
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As writers, it's our job to create engaging, dynamic, and precious characters... and then torture them until they complete their character arc! Readers will turn the page just to watch a character fight back against a bully or realize their stubbornness and pride is keeping them from the love of their life. This week, authors Anna Mercier and Lyssa Mia Smith discuss how putting characters in a vacuum in which they are devoid of the thing they really need can create addictive stories.


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36: Putting Your Characters Through Hell

36: Putting Your Characters Through Hell

Turning to Story