Justification

Choosing Between Your Head and Your Heart

How the Main Character reacts at the climax could have a lot to do with their backstory.

digging down to find your main character’s wound

Looking for that something special that makes a Main Character so compelling.

balance and act turn

The nature of act turns in relation to the growth of the Main Character.

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Story Fanatic is a website dedicated to investigating the wonderful world of story. From story structure to theory, analysis to writing, the articles on this site are an effort by Jim Hull to explore why some stories work better than others. Since 2005, 259 articles have been written. Read more »

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