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✍️ Does your character actually have an arc?
Published about 2 months ago • 3 min read
Hi Reader, The topic of today's email is brought to you by me, finally fixing one of my POV characters' arcs. Suddenly, everything fell into place: the challenge he'd face, the situations he'd uncover, and what he'd learn from it. This fits with the way I write: my stories lean a bit more toward character-driven decisions, and how I want my characters to evolve informs the plot. So this might not fit with how you prefer to write, and that's okay. But even if character arcs don't quite matter...
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