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My main character's (first) big realization is about to happen. It will be tricky, but internal antagonists are my favorite thing to write. The Journeyman Writer talks about the difference between external and internal antagonists in this podcast, now archived on YouTube. I highly recommend the whole series, he has a lot of good ideas and discussions.
A story with an internal antagonist doesn't have a villain. Instead, your main character is, knowingly or not, fighting against their own erroneous beliefs or bad habits or character flaws. I almost exclusively write these kinds of stories because I feel they are universal. Not all of us have an outside force working to make our lives worse, but we do all have character flaws we're trying to overcome. Watching someone go through that successfully is cathartic, and, sometimes, even instructive.
It's also wicked fun to write.
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