{"id":2081,"date":"2017-03-22T04:56:35","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T11:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/?p=2081"},"modified":"2017-03-22T05:34:08","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T12:34:08","slug":"the-main-characters-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/the-main-characters-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"The Main Character’s Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the nature of the Main Character’s struggle in a story. He has either built up an understanding of how to try and solve problems that no longer fits, or he has built up an understanding of what causes problems that is no longer correct<\/p>\n

The backstory builds one of these scenarios. A context is established that creates one kind of problem requiring\u00a0a specific solution. The story begins with a context in which\u00a0the main character’s established problem solving technique is no longer appropriate. The question then becomes whether the Main Character should change his method\u00a0to conform to the new situation or remain steadfast in sticking to the old method\u00a0until things get back to “normal.”<\/p>\n

This creates the core of the story’s message, which is brought to a climax when\u00a0the main character must make a leap of faith.<\/p>\n

Excerpted from the free online book,<\/em><\/h2>\n

Dramatica: A New Theory of Story<\/em><\/a><\/h2>\n

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This is the nature of the Main Character’s struggle in a story. He has either built up an understanding of how to try and solve problems that no longer fits, or he has built up an understanding of what causes problems that is no longer correct The backstory builds one of these scenarios. A context […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-characters"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p36xpN-xz","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2081"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2085,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081\/revisions\/2085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}