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Scenario

Why characters feel real to writers but flat to readers

My protagonist keeps doing things that make perfect sense to me but my beta readers say she feels flat and I am starting to think I do not understand people at all

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The intimacy of creation can blind us to the distance between internal knowledge and external revelation.

Your guide for this
Mura
Mura works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Fiction and storytelling — craft fundamentals?”

Peri

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