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Devouring Wolf, what exactly is the problem? I know you said something about killing tension, but is this feedback you are getting from beta readers, or is it your own assessment? Do you have a completed draft? Can you identify where the story goes off the rails?
These questions can be filed in the "author as his own worst enemy" drawer. I'm asking just to see if that might be the case.
I've realized one of the major problems with my story is that it has three major characters, but one of them is introduced so late in the story that while he's sympathetic he feels more like a major obstacle than a major character which is not what I wanted. Its very important to the story that he be not just someone you understand but someone you root for even if he's opposing the other MC so I need the amount of time we spend with each character to be much more balanced
However, his story is one of revenge against the other MC, so what he's doing in the earlier scenes is trying to track down the other character, which would be a great plot-line, if the reader didn't already know exactly where the other character was because he had his own POV. Conversely I've tried writing this story initially from his perspective and introducing the other POV character much later, but it had the same unbalancing affect on the narrative. There just doesn't seem to be a way to track both plotlines without killing tension.
Anyone faced a similar challenge and overcome it?