When your protagonist bores you, you're in trouble.
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I'm a sucker for a screwed-up protagonist. We all have issues.
Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
There is no bore like a clever bore.
When you put your characters in a dire situation, they often do things that surprise even you, so you have to go back and revise your original conception of who they are.
When you're writing fiction, you're in every character 'cause you can't help it.
Once you start writing a character visually, you're in trouble.
I think that ultimately any effective drama or tragedy tries to put you as much as it can into the protagonist's shoes.
People seem to need a likable protagonist more than ever.
If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.
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