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Is it possible for a novel to have more than one protagonist? I'm participating in the "NaNoWriMo Preparation Anchor It" challenge and I was reading of the Crusie Mayer writing lessons for Protagonist and Antagonist development and I realized that I really don't have either one nailed down yet. I have three characters that could be considered the protagonist. Should I pick out one that should be MORE of a protagonist than the others?

I'm not sure what to do.

Help?

I have read many different books where there was more than one protagonist and the point of view switches throughout the book between them.

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To be honest, when I wrote my first novel for Socnoc June. I didn't know anything about protaganists and antagonists. I had a lead character throughout, introducing other strong characters, along the way, but everything harked back to why everything happened to an old girl.
Even my husband said after reading it, Lily ruled the story. It will be interesting to see what Kerryn thinks as she is reading it at present.

When you think about it, it's like that in real life. There are people you warm to straight away, others get your back up, misunderstandings and assumptions can prose problems in life.

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I think it's quite possible to have more than one protagonist. I have read several books where there have been many characters who had fairly equal roles, obviously different characters will appeal to different people more than others - the series which springs to mind for me is George R R Martins a song of ice and fire.

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More than one protagonist is definitely done so if it fits your book go for it! As you write it you may discover things that make you revise those that you pick but for now the idea is to get you started.

Romance novels are a good one where they generally have two equal protagonists: the hero and the heroine.

This stuff has fallen into place after a lot of reading. If it doesn't make sense to you and it's just making preparing more complicated then use what you want of it.

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More than one protagonist is definitely fine. But do be careful not to have too many though... it would be hard to fit too many characters' stories into one novel!!

This is my opinion... Advantages of:
1.) 1-Protagonist = story is more focused on one character and how they overcome the hospital.
2.) More-than-1-Protagonist = you can tell the same story from different point of views, so the reader can sympathize with all sides of the story, OR you can have many different stories and tell them simultaneously, so the reader is caught up with lots of characters' lives.

Can't think of any examples of the above right now, but do you sort of get what I mean?

I think it really depends on what you think is best -which do you think would be a better novel/story?

The story I'm writing for SoCNoC right now will be the first in a series of books, following two cousins. On the one hand, I've found it to be a total challenge, because my style before these cousins has always been to write one MC. But on the other, it's turned out to be so interesting! The characters lead me--they're sure to let me know when one is getting more attention than the other. :-)

I'm falling into a pattern in which the whole series has the same two main characters (or three, when the third protagonist joins the team in book 2)--and each individual book has a second set of "main characters." Mini protagonists that are exclusive to the action in that particular book.

So--right now I have two main characters, who are interacting with three main "guest stars." Challenging, but fun. :-)

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