Who Are The Three Characters Driving Your Plot?
Sometimes deciding what role a character is going to play in your story is tricky. If you want to cut through the confusing labels used for characters, try this simple method: focus only on three biggest characters in your story and rank them in starring order.
Source: Who Are The Three Characters Driving Your Plot? – Writers Write
7 Questions to Make Sure Your Plot Has Believable Consequences
A great plot in your fiction novel must have believable consequences in the world you create there. Otherwise, your story falls off the deep end.
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Legit Writing Tip #123
Your characters MUST have agency. They must affect the plot in some way. Otherwise your readers will be asking themselves, “Why should I care about all this random stuff happening to this random character?”
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