Your character has a choice to make

Paul Kix
6 min readMay 10, 2022

How decisions reveal character in any story you tell.

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I just read Emily St. John Mandel’s The Glass Hotel.

It’s stunning.

Mandel’s characters advance the plot through their actions. In other words, Mandel forces her characters to make choice after choice in the novel, and those choices have repercussions and those repercussions escalate as the story…

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Paul Kix

Best-selling author of The Saboteur. Learn the 7 rules six-figure writers follow to make more money: https://paulkixnewsletter.lpages.co/seven-tips-pdf/