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Developing Strong Protagonists.
The Key to Character Development in Narrative Structure.
As your story moves along, your protagonist will choose to do what she or he would never have done earlier in the book. And, you’ll need to make these choices believable.
Supporting characters and antagonists go through this process, too, but their real job is to force the protagonist to make tough, even impossible, choices.
Hard Choices Drive Your Story
Consider a number of things that are wrong in a protagonist’s inner and outer life at the start of the storyList them, and you’ll find you have a sort of template for character developmentRobert McKee writes in Story that many writers confuse character building (creating an interesting character, including reveals) with character development (characters making tough choices they would not earlier have made.)
“True character is revealed in the choices a human being makes under pressure – the greater the pressure, the deeper the revelation, the truer the choice to the character’s essential nature.”
― Robert McKee, Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting
Here’s to another brilliant week in your writing career.
Cheers, Mel
Mel Anastasiou is a founding editor with Pulp Literature Press.
Coming Soon from Pulp Literature Press Mel Anastastiou’s The Extra, A Monument Studios Mystery. Silver screen Hollywood is packed with hopeful stars like runaway schoolmarm Frankie Ray, but the plot twists when murder steals the scene.
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Mel Anastasiou writes The Fairmount Manor Mysteries series, starring Mrs Stella Ryman, The Hertfordshire Pub Mysteries series, starring Spencer Stevens, and The Extra: A Monument Studios Mystery, coming Autumn of 2020.
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