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Once again I'm too tired for too much of a writerly ways but just before I sat down I hit a part of my current read that made me want to throw the book into the trash. Let's get back into this. Please find better ways to put your characters in jeopardy than to make them absolute idiots. I hit a passage where the protagonist is trying to convince someone she wants to question that she's a friend and she loves the same video game as this person, acting on details given to her by someone who had played but never finished. So when the conversation turns to the game's end, rather than say 'I haven't finished yet' she tries to pretend she knows the ending and of course is found out. I'm like really? Are you this dumb? Well based on all the other dumb things she's done yes.

There has to be a point when we sit down with our characters and our plots and ask ourselves, is this the only path to tension and conflict? Do we need them to do things that makes the reader's eyes rolls? Is there a better way to put them in danger that doesn't make their IQ look smaller than their shoe size?

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