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Podcast: Essential Guide to Writing a Novel
Episode: Episode 195 - The adopt a dog technique.
Description: One of the best ways to have readers like our story is to have readers like--maybe even love--our main character.  But we usually don't want our protagonist to be a Pollyanna, always sweet and understanding. Rather we want to create a fully-formed character--maybe with some weird or off-putting angles, maybe some flaws and shortcomings--to make the character interesting and believable. Here's a technique to make sure readers will root for our main character even if the character isn't usually endearing. Also, here is how a master writer describes her settings.Support the showBuy the master...