Judges 11:38 "And he
said, Go. And he sent her away for two months: and she went with her
companions, and bewailed her virginity upon the mountains."
When we throw pain and
heartache at our characters for the sake of a good story, it is expected that
they will hurt. They will notice what has happened to them and react
appropriately.
They might bewail over their
lot in their thoughts or storm off. They might take their feelings out in hard
work or become self destructive.
But the story becomes
boring if the character doesn’t eventually put aside the grief and make a plan
to fix what has gone wrong. Tragedy in a story can overwhelm a reader, if the
character doesn’t eventually stop his bewailing and do something about his new challenge.
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