when you have two problems in a creative endeavor, it is often (usually?) the case that they SOLVE EACH OTHER
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Replying to @MorlockP
e.g. you're writing and your hero is boring bc he doesn't have any depth, and your villainess needs a beau >
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Replying to @MorlockP
maybe you complicate things by taking these two problems and SLAMMING THEM TOGETHER. The hero is dating the villainess.
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Replying to @MorlockP
Or she's his mom / sister / best friend. Maybe he even knows she's evil, but can't find the guts to turn her in, or fight her
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Replying to @MorlockP
or that sort of thing. I had this crop up several times in writing my book, and this approach worked EVERY SINGLE TIME.
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Replying to @catapult_cpu
the biggest problem I had to get over was that I liked my heroes, so wanted to help them succeed. That's wrong. >
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Replying to @MorlockP
as the author, you can't HELP your heroes, you have to make their problems worse at every step. That keeps audience on edge >
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Replying to @MorlockP
and flipping pages. At the end, tho, for maximum craftsmanship points, you can SOLVE problems by smashing things together. >
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Replying to @MorlockP
e.g. we've got grandpa's old rusty sword that cut heroes hand in scene 3, and we've got X from scene 12, and we've got villain
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and now in climax, at Act 2 / Act 2 break, we can solve the villain problem with the rusty sword problem
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