Karis Anne
Karis Anne asked Josiah DeGraaf:

Hi, Josiah! What would be your tips for creating good character struggles like the ones in your short story collection? I was impressed when you had your characters face extremely difficult ethical dilemmas and decisions. Sometimes they chose the "wrong path", but somehow (even through that) you still made it clear that good was good and evil was evil and didn't muddle the two. How can I mimic this in my own stories?

Josiah DeGraaf Glad you enjoyed the dilemmas in Visions of Grandeur! For me, a lot of it had to do with putting the characters in a place where I knew there weren't easy answers. And then I used the natural consequences of the character's choices to point to whether they made a good decision or not. :)

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