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Your Cast: Brandon, Valynne, Dan, Howard
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\nYou had questions about heroes, villains, and main characters. We have answers! Here are the questions:
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\n \t* How do you make planned power increases not seem like an ass-pull\xb9?
\n \t* What do you do when your villain is more interesting/engaging than your hero?
\n \t* How do you know when a character is unnecessary and needs to be removed from the story, or killed off in the story?
\n \t* What tricks do you use when you want the reader to mistakenly believe a character is a hero, rather than a villain?
\n \t* Which is more fun for you: creating a villain, or creating a hero?
\n \t* How many side characters can you reasonably juggle in a novel?
\n \t* What are the drawbacks to making your villain a POV character?
\n \t* If your villain doesn't show up until late in the story, how do you make their eventual appearance seem justified?
\n \t* How do you get readers to like a character who is a jerk?
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\nLiner Footnotes
\n\xb9 We hadn't seen "ass-pull,"\xa0the\xa0a nouning\xb2 of the idiom "pull it out of your ass\xb3" as a noun before.
\n \xb2 Bill Watterson gave us the verb form of the word "noun" indirectly in the final panel of this strip.
\n\xb3 For those unfamiliar with the extraction-from-orifice idiom, it means "make it up on the spot," with a negative connotation, suggesting that the reader can TELL that this was invented in a hurry.\n\nSupport this podcast at \u2014 https://redcircle.com/writing-excuses2130/exclusive-content\n\nAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands\n\nPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy