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One thing that stood out to me was making sure readers understand why there’s internal conflict over a choice. However, that point actually stood out to me because of an external conflict, not an internal one (though it’s also an internal conflict for a lot of people in the story). In Mechanical Heart, there’s an illegal magic known as blood alchemy that certain groups are trying to legalize. It’s forbidden because, as the name suggests, it requires human blood to work. At the moment, however, I’ve played up the downsides of blood alchemy a lot, but I think I need to show why people (who aren’t villains) would want it to be legal so that aspect of the conflict makes more sense.