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When All Else Fails, Change Characters

Plus Bonus Story — The Boot Thief

Natalie Frank, Ph.D.
Literally Literary
Published in
14 min readFeb 26, 2019

I have been working on a novel for a while now. While initially it was moving along quite well, and I was having a lot of fun with it, I came to a point where it seemed that it wasn’t going anywhere. My characters seemed perfectly content to sit around talking to each other instead of moving the plot forward.

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Natalie Frank, Ph.D.
Literally Literary

I write about behavioral health & other topics. I’m Managing Editor (Serials, Novellas) for LVP Press. See my other articles: https://hubpages.com/@nataliefrank