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Readers empathize with a character who wants thingsâ€”even when they donâ€™t approve of the things that the character wants. (Think of Shakespeareâ€™s Macbeth, or Satan in Paradise Lost.) Even a person who does not express or feel emotion in conventional ways can still want things.

So as long as you can show that your character has desires and makes sacrifices in her attempts to fulfill them, you should be good.

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: As a rule of thumb: If a accident makes a characterâ€™s life worse, you can put it anywhere in the story, because it becomes just one more challenge for the character to overcome. If an

: How do I evaluate an unwritten plot/story? I'm working on a full, detailed outline of my planned book series before I have much of it written down. I'm not a pantser, I must have a clear

: Twist in kishÅtenketsu vs. twist in Western plots How does the â€œtwist / ten / è»¢â€ phase in the Japanese kishÅtenketsu narrative structure differ from the â€œplot twistâ€ that is a standard

: People have flaws. If a character is portrayed as flawless then that character comes off as having somewhat less substance than otherwise. The abduction or murder of a relative is not a character,

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: As a rule of thumb: If a accident makes a characterâ€™s life worse, you can put it anywhere in the story, because it becomes just one more challenge for the character to overcome. If an

: How do I evaluate an unwritten plot/story? I'm working on a full, detailed outline of my planned book series before I have much of it written down. I'm not a pantser, I must have a clear

: Twist in kishÅtenketsu vs. twist in Western plots How does the â€œtwist / ten / è»¢â€ phase in the Japanese kishÅtenketsu narrative structure differ from the â€œplot twistâ€ that is a standard

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