[ SECRET POST #3220 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3220 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Justifications

[feotakahari]

I always wind up "humanizing" them or removing ways for them to quickly solve the plot, and that just so happens to undermine their authority. At this point, I'm not even trying. I'll leave it to someone else to write great authority figures.

Re: Justifications

[blitzwing]

That actually sounds like you're writing really good authority characters. A great authority figure character is a human one. Better to show a prison warden with hopes and fears, weaknesses and failings, who maybe gets rescued by a prisoner and has his traditional authority undermined, then some cardboard cutout who is perfect and unshakable.

You shouldn't feel bad about throwing tons of obstacles in their way. People don't want to read about problems neatly and calmly solved, after all.

It sounds like you're doing everything you need to do to write a good story.