I had a friend email me with a cool question: How do you let the reader in on something the first person protagonist doesn’t? I know it’s tricky, and I know it can be done, and I know it’s a rush when you pull it off. My answer involved set-up: You establish the character as [...]
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Among the many and ongoing interesting discussions at our home, we’ve been talking about the concept we’re calling “internal logic” for a character. Internal logic here means that, among other things: an action that to an outside observer appears irrational, wrong, or evil, from the internal viewpoint of the character will be a justified, logical, [...]
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