Chesterama, exactly. Thank you so much. That is important. Every scene (I believe) should be viewed in how it adds to the emotional journey of the character. Every make it worse should inherently mean something to the character.
So in fifthviews example of the assassin, I would try to mine for the emotion and make it worse:
He's afraid of heights? He fell from a tree as a child?
The guy he is killing is connected to him somehow?
He breaks into the castle to find that they don't just have his apprentice, but the holy relic they've been looking for, and he has to choose?
So in fifthviews example of the assassin, I would try to mine for the emotion and make it worse:
He's afraid of heights? He fell from a tree as a child?
The guy he is killing is connected to him somehow?
He breaks into the castle to find that they don't just have his apprentice, but the holy relic they've been looking for, and he has to choose?