The Big Scary Fear Monster Is Really the Rock Star of Your Novel

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Apr 27 2022 | 00:04:46

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One of my favorite writing exercises is super simple. I take a bunch of novelists and ask them: What is your protagonists more afraid of happening than anything else in the whole freaking universe? We authors talk a lot about what our characters wants are, their yearnings, their goals, but we often forget about the […]

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