I finally figured out why my main character kept dying in chapter 3

I was writing a fantasy story last month at my kitchen table in Austin, and every time I got to chapter 3 my hero would do some dumb thing that made no sense. Took me five rewrites before I realized I had given him a backstory as a blacksmith but zero motivation to fight anyone. Has anyone else had a character just refuse to act the way you planned?

2 comments

2 Comments

andrew720d ago

Oh man, I did the SAME thing with a character who had zero reason to leave his house.

eric_price20d ago

Did you at least give him a REALLY good reason by chapter 3 or just let him order pizza delivery forever?