The harder we make life for our
protagonists, the greater the obstacles they have to overcome, the more readers
will care. One of the problems I see in a lot of student fiction (and
occasionally in my own) is that writers feel too much for their protagonists
and thus take pity on them. But writing requires a certain level of
ruthlessness. Sometimes, to be kind to our readers, we must be cruel to our
characters.
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