Too many internal questions can come across like the author telling the reader what they ought to be wondering about.

Internalization is a powerful tool for showing who a character is, how they feel, and what’s motivating them to act. It does a lot of the heavy lifting in both the character arc and the plot, because readers get to see the internal debates that lead to the choices they make in the story.

But it’s easy to go too far with internalized questions.

Internal questions shouldn’t read like instructions on how a reader should interpret the scene.

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