: Why is it important that he have street smarts? If he uses them in a specific way in the story, writing that will display the street smarts. If you worry you can't think of how a street-smart

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Why is it important that he have street smarts? If he uses them in a specific way in the story, writing that will display the street smarts. If you worry you can't think of how a street-smart character will behave, remember this: your character needs to solve a problem in real time with a good idea, but you can take as long as you like to decide what they do! The writers of Malcolm in the Middle endowed their protagonist with a different kind of smarts, but apparently their standard strategy was to spend ages (days, I think I read) coming up with how he could solve a difficult practical problem, then showed him coming up with it much faster than that. How much truth there is in that story I don't know, but you can try that technique.

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