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What Are the Stakes?
So you have your character’s goal and your plot is moving. But what will happen if your character doesn’t get what they’re going after?
As your story moves, you want to be constantly raising the stakes so that the audience knows why the character can’t turn around and go home. It should be grounded in the emotional journey they’re on, so if the character is obsessed with being perfect, the worst thing would be for everyone to know what a mess they are.
But how do you show that physically? How do you establish through their actions why it’s so much more important to them than it is to the average person?
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