Plot = Character Development?

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Your plot and your character development do not have to be separate entities!

Under this theory...

Your plot should produce tension
which should produce character growth
which should provide more tension
which should produce more plot.

In order to achieve their short and long term plot related goals, your character should have to develop, whether that be positively or negatively. They should face their flaws, beliefs, and past actions, and make a conscious or subconscious choice to change as a person. This growth should then create openings through which more plot can attack your character and force them to develop again.

The exact same principle can be applied to character relationships, to action scenes, and to most other manor types of subplots and scenes.

Every aspect of the story should be connected and intertwined, so that one cannot exist without the others.

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