Grace Draven

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338 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 7 Jul

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Fiction Writing Made Easy with Savannah Gilbo | How to Write a Novel & Writing Advice · #255. Student Spotlight: How Grace Draven Learned to Write Faster (Without Sacrificing Quality) · 7 Jul 2026 podcast

Oh yeah, for sure.

So for me, I another aha moment besides the scene connection when I was going through the notes to novel and the podcast and so forth.

was the idea that when you approach it, you need to have a really solid idea about that antagonist because the antagonist is making plans and doing things and so forth without any consideration of what the protagonist is doing or how their actions will affect the protagonist.

So I think

For me, it was up until that time, I was thinking less about the antagonist first and more about the protagonist.

We really it should be one was being reactive to the other.

I needed to flip it.

And wow, did that make a difference?

Because the current book that I'm working on, I was able when I changed my thought process, said, okay, let me concentrate on this antagonist and what their goals are, their fears, their wounds, you know, everything like that.

It was wild because once I nailed that in my head, wrote down a few notes and so forth, it was able to jack the stakes up for the protagonists hugely.

I mean, extra

Exponentially for me, which is great.

You want to raise those stakes as high as you can.

And it was raising the stakes and also the motivation for both people, not just it totally changed how I was going to approach the protagonist, you know, motivation.

And just by putting that antagonist first.

Yes, or I had to flesh them out more.

They they tended to be a little flat.

Yeah.

You know, and a lot of times I wouldn't be able to, you know, expand upon them, make them a more three dimensional character until I was so much later into the book.

At that point I was on I'd hit the ground running, I was in the groove, and then I knew where to make the changes.

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