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The Character Arc – From Fear to Greatness

 Piper Bayard

A character arc in fiction, as in life, is the path by which a character transcends his deepest fear to achieve greatness. Without this evolution, the reader has no reason to travel with that character through the story.

 

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To create this character arc, we must know our character’s greatest fear.… Read the post

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