The Discomfort Zone

Congrats to Lil, the winner of Karin Harlow's L.O.S.T mug. We're always talking about taking our characters out of their comfort zones, making them do things they don't want to do, making them face things they don't want to face. These are usually things that mark critical turning points in a book. The claustrophobic hero has to rescue someone from a cave. The guy with the snake phobia has to