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changing a character’s approach

May 16th, 2005 · 1 Comment

An interesting thing I learned at the DUG last week - that regardless of who your Change character is (whether it’s the Main Character or the Impact Character), part of that change includes a change to their Approach.
So if the Main Character was a Do-er and Changes, his Approach at the Climax of the story would change to a Be-er. If he was a Be-er, at the end of the story he would be a Do-er. Now I know the Impact Character’s Approach is not something you can choose in the program, but it is always opposite of the Main Character. So in the first example above, the IC would be a Steadfast Be-er and would remain that way for the entire story.
The same holds true for a Change IC. If you have a Steadfast MC Do-er, then the IC would start out as a Be-er and then through the course of the story change to a Do-er, just like the MC.
This happened in “Mr. Roberts,” where the title character (Henry Fonda) was a Steadfast Do-er whose resoluteness caused the Be-er IC (Jack Lemon) to Change into a Do-er - shown onscreen by his tossing of the palm tree overboard.

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    • 1 Arlene // Apr 26, 2006 at 12:09 pm

      I understand they switch - but this isn’t a permanent change is it? I am writing a series, and the mc starts in first book - be-er/change

      ends up changing - Having to do a lot of things - but her nature is still a beer - intiutive. will she stay true to her character in the 2nd book if she is beer/change again? or does it matter - book to book?

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