A Character is a Box

To me, a character is a box. It has boundaries, places that are in character and outside of it. We hear about a person acting "out of character." It's like that in fiction.

The character grows when he or she can increase the size of the box, trengthen it, build it higher or something.

If you don't build boxes around your character, you risk boring for the reader. You your reader giving up on your story because your story feels contrived.

I was in a writer's group with a writer who, every time her character faced a challenge, she simply had the character able to do something I never knew he or she could do. I couldn't stand it.

I want to help move people's careers along. Is what I am saying helpful?

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