The heroes we carry with us—the ones we talk about years later—are the ones who tremble. The ones who feel. The ones who crack under the weight and then choose, somehow, to stand back up. Today's Tony Tips Tuesdays™, I want to talk about something that separates surface-level storytelling from emotionally powerful storytelling: Vulnerability in your hero.

Today on Tony Tips Tuesdays™, we’re going deeper into the craft of writing hidden desires—the emotional engines that quietly drive decisions, sabotage relationships, and eventually force characters to confront themselves.