From SAVE THE CAT WRITES A NOVEL:

“There are only two criteria for being a successful B Story character (others need not apply): They must in some way represent the upside-down Act 2 world. They must in some way help guide the hero toward their life lesson or theme.”

I am happy to report that my B story character meets both these criteria. 1. He is the only character my hero meets who both believes him and has undergone a similar experience as my character. He is therefore counter to every other character in my hero’s life. 2. He does in fact help my hero learn the theme by showing my hero what letting the trauma of the past stay with you looks like and making him want to get closure on that trauma before it destroys him like it does the B story character.

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Philip A. McClimon is an author who likes to write about the end of the world (post apocalyptic, Sci/Fi), mostly because he thinks the shopping would be awesome (No crowds, everything free). He likes heroes that are the strong, silent type and not necessarily male. By silent he means up until the time there is something snarky to say, usually before, during, and after doing something cool. He writes Urban Fantasy under the name Billy Baltimore for no other reason than that he likes the name. Many of the same rules for his other stories apply to Billy’s, strong silent types, smart mouth, does cool stuff, but these stories take place in a made up town called Hemisphere and involve stuff you only ever hear about on late night conspiracy talk show podcasts, which are, if you think about it, pretty awesome too. So, that’s Phil. He’s not strong, rarely silent, and isn’t known for doing a lot of cool things. But his characters are.