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Episode 136 - Benefits of a character's otherness.

Episode 136 - Benefits of a character's otherness.

Update: 2024-10-25
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A strong way to make a character likeable, and to have the reader root for her, is to have the character experience "otherness."  She's out of place.  She doesn't fit.  Here are techniques on how to do so.  Also, how F. Scott Fitzgerald worked.  And, no whining.

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Episode 136 - Benefits of a character's otherness.

Episode 136 - Benefits of a character's otherness.

James Thayer