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Finding the Character’s Pain

By Michael Shawn Sommermeyer | February 12, 2015March 8, 2016 by Michael Shawn Sommermeyer

Character pain is what a character needs to survive. Give them a past full of strife and challenges. Allow them to triumph. And then smack them again.

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