on Helping Writers become Authors:
Great character arcs are built on transformation, and one of the most powerful frameworks for understanding this journey is the four stages of knowing in character arcs.
These stages map a character’s growth through initiation to enlightenment to integration in a way that feels deeply satisfying to readers.
Why? Because it is yet another way in which the shape of story mirrors the patterns of real life.
Once you can see how plot structure challenges characters to grow (sometimes successfully, sometimes not), you can more consciously craft resonant character arcs.
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