Zero to novel (Ep 2) Designing the Wound: Your Protagonist’s Secret
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Zero to novel (Ep 2) Designing the Wound: Your Protagonist’s Secret
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Most psychological thrillers don’t fail because the plot is weak. They fail because the protagonist has no psychological engine.
In Episode 02 of Zero to Novel, you’ll learn how to design the one element that makes tension inevitable: the Wound—the hidden damage that warps how a character interprets reality, makes them choose the wrong thing under pressure, and forces the truth to leak out at the worst possible time.
You’ll build the Wound Triangle step-by-step:
Wound (Damage): what hurt them
Lie (Belief): what they concluded to survive
Mask (Coping): how they present themselves so nobody sees the wound
Then we go deeper into identity-threatening secrets, the flaw patterns that create believable spirals, and the villain blueprint that turns conflict personal: a villain (or system) who knows exactly where to cut—and uses “help” as a weapon.
By the end, you’ll have a repeatable character tool you can apply to any thriller, plus clear homework to lock your protagonist, secret, and antagonist into one tight psychological trap.
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