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I am taking an Udemy writing course about novel writing, and the instructor, who is a published author, said that your main character, which she calls "hero" of your book, must undergo a character transformation and become a different person by the end of the book. She says this is crucial to writing the novel.
However, my main character is not a "hero" and doesn't become a better person, in fact he winds up in jail. Although he does go through a transformation in the book, becoming a different person, changing. i don't want to rewrite everything to make him some "better" person, necessarily, and he is not a hero. So I really don't know what to do.
That's a transformation. The transformation is necessary, but it doesn't have to be a happy one. Or even a very big one.
Ask your instructor, but I'm sure your manuscript would meet the requirement. The hero of any book can be an anti-hero and it will work just fine.
No need to make him better. He can become rotten and the transformation can be as satisfying as if he was a good guy.
That was the transformation in the Breaking Bad series, and that transformation was one of the most dramatically satisfying, arresting, and popular as anything that has ever been written.
That's a transformation. The transformation is necessary, but it doesn't have to be a happy one. Or even a very big one.
Ask your instructor, but I'm sure your manuscript would meet the requirement. The hero of any book can be an anti-hero and it will work just fine.
No need to make him better. He can become rotten and the transformation can be as satisfying as if he was a good guy.
That was the transformation in the Breaking Bad series, and that transformation was one of the most dramatically satisfying, arresting, and popular as anything that has ever been written.
Nothing is compulsory, unless you want ot write stock based redundancy built on a model (like romance novels are wtirren)
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