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When the Hero is His Own Worst Enemy-What We Can Learn from FLIGHT - Kristen Lamb
What this means is that a character being his or her own worst enemy alone is not enough. There MUST be a story problem that generates the tension and change. With no story problem, there is no way to have dramatic tension. It just becomes a character being TDTL (Too Dumb To Live). We don't have a novel, we have self-indulgence.
Kristen Lamb