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How do I develop a character?

Arc

In movies, things happen and characters change. Otherwise, the audience will ask why a movie was made. (For most movies, someone asks that anyway.) Your leads and supporting characters should all have arcs—should all change or be changed in some obvious, fundamental way due to the “things happening” in the story.

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