Notes on the Writing Life: protagonist

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Thursday, November 20, 2008

Every protagonist needs ...

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Stephanie Cowell offers this quote from Donald Maass:
"Every protagonist needs a tortuous need, a consuming fear, an aching regret, a visible dream, a passionate longing, an exquisite lust, an inner lack, a fatal weakness, an irresistible plan, a noble idea, an underlying hope… "

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