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2 Oct 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief video, the speaker delivers a practical writing tip: give a protagonist differing social status in the various groups they belong to (e.g., powerful at work but the family joke at Thanksgiving, a star athlete who can’t get a girlfriend). By varying a character’s rank—high, low, or middle—in each group, writers can reveal personality and how the character handles pressure without explicit exposition. The tip is presented as a "show, don’t tell" strategy, followed by a standard call to action to subscribe and like for more nerdy writing advice.

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Here's a really nerdy writing tip you're going to love. Mix up your protagonist's status in different groups, and it's going to make your writing way better. So your protagonist should be a part of different groups, and their status should be different in each of the groups. So a character who's the boss at work, he needs to be the family joke at Thanksgiving. The kid that is a star of a baseball team, but yet he can't actually get a girlfriend. Every character needs to have a mix of statuses, right? They need to be high, low, somewhere in the middle based on what groups they're in, because then this shows the reader who they are and how they react to pressure in different social situations. So this is another way to show instead of tell. For more nerdy writing tips, subscribe and like below.