13. How Approaching Story with a Bias Breaks Your Audience's Trust

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In story, your characters and their world must be credible and believable. The job of the storyteller, first and foremost, is to tell the truth about the world as you know it, and about the people who inhabit that world. The acid test of how well you’ve accomplished this is always and forever the same: does it ring true to the audience? 

One kind of believability has to do with the characteristics of the character him or herself. Have you given them the right characteristics to effectively convince the audience that he or she could do whatever it is they end up doing in the story? 

But there’s another way to undermine the believability of the story, and that’s when a characters simply aren't real enough. They don’t feel like real people. They’re not fully fleshed out as three dimensional beings. They're sketches. One thing that can lead to this:

When the storyteller holds a prior commitment to a certain philosophy that limits their willingness to explore the true depths of character

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