F is for Failure

Failure and setback stories are among the hardest story to tell about us. We screw up. We know it, but we may not want to admit to ourselves, let along to others. Failure creates a rift between ourselves and others. We fear that the others will lose faith in ourselves. Worse, our failure may hurt others. It 's equally hard to account for the characters we like as it's hard to be objective about it. Success is easier to be accountable fdor failure, but perhaps because of this, failure often define a character. This's why I 'm trying to do this post to provide my thought on writing about the characters' failure.

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