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He said, 'You have to go there. You have to take your character to the place where he just can't take it anymore.' He looked at us with a tenderness we hadn't seen in him before. 'You've been there, haven't you? You've been out on the ledge. The marriage is over now; the dream is over now; nothing good can come from this.'

He got louder. 'Writing a story isn't about making your peaceful fantasies come true. The whole point of the story is the character arc. You didn't think joy could change a person, did you? Joy is what you feel when the conflict is over. But it's conflict that changes a person.'

His voice was like thunder now. 'You put your characters through hell. You put them through hell. That's the only way we change.'

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— Robert McKee in A Million Miles in a Thousand Years, by Donald Miller