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These 5 Techniques Give Your Characters Impossible Odds They Can Still Fight

Your protagonist has strong agency, but now you need to threaten them with impossible odds without making them feel powerless. This is the storyteller's paradox: characters need enough power to drive the story, but not so much power that nothing feels dangerous anymore. 👉 Write your best novel yet with my cheap, digital & printer-friendly writing workbooks: https://plannerpaletteco.etsy.com In this video, I break down five specific techniques for creating overwhelming obstacles that actually strengthen your protagonist's agency instead of destroying it. You'll learn how to give your characters impossible choices instead of impossible situations, how to scale agency within massive systems, and why the best overwhelming odds threaten identity, not just success. Whether you're writing fantasy, sci-fi, contemporary fiction, or any other genre, these storytelling techniques will help you create protagonists who feel both powerful and vulnerable and keep readers invested even when your characters are facing insurmountable odds. This video is for any writers struggling with power scaling, character development, and creating meaningful conflict that doesn't strip away protagonist agency. 📲 FOLLOW MY SOCIALS: TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@authorbrisarovski Threads: www.threads.net/@authorbrisarovski Instagram: www.instagram.com/authorbrisarovski Chapters: 0:00 Intro 0:51 The Problem 2:46 1. Give Them Impossible Choices 3:50 2. Let Them Affect the How 5:11 3. Small Agency in Big Systems 6:29 4. The Pyrrhic Victory 7:43 5. The Evolving Challenge 9:23 When Overwhelming Odds Work 10:56 Your Homework Thank you for watching! Don't forget to like and subscribe 💕