Azoraa
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I think in the novels where this happens, and where I liked it, it wasn't explicit. It didn't boil down to a character changing their mind -- that wasn't the plot. That's probably why I don't really remember explicit examples, either.
Hm, I think the last novel that comes to mind where something like that happened was Rebecca Roanhorse's "Trail of Lightning". Maggie the loner is convinced to work together with someone. I think the way it worked was that it wasn't an actual, general persuasion.
On the one hand, she didn't really notice she was persuaded. Only in hindsight. Things just happened to her. --> which would mean, for the sake of writing/scene-setting, to not work with beliefs, but with concrete situations.
Secondly, she wasn't persuaded to not be a loner, but only to come along for this-or-that. Again, specific, concrete, local -- instead of an argument about not being such a longer, or on the benefits of collaboration.
Hm, I think the last novel that comes to mind where something like that happened was Rebecca Roanhorse's "Trail of Lightning". Maggie the loner is convinced to work together with someone. I think the way it worked was that it wasn't an actual, general persuasion.
On the one hand, she didn't really notice she was persuaded. Only in hindsight. Things just happened to her. --> which would mean, for the sake of writing/scene-setting, to not work with beliefs, but with concrete situations.
Secondly, she wasn't persuaded to not be a loner, but only to come along for this-or-that. Again, specific, concrete, local -- instead of an argument about not being such a longer, or on the benefits of collaboration.