Setting your characters up to fail
If your characters win easily, you lose as the writer.
Remember my concern about protective author syndrome at the beginning of this chapter? If you get stressed during this section, you may need to reread that section. The best way to make a story engaging, and therefore more enjoyable to write, is to force the character to struggle to achieve their goa…
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