Following on from the last post, the current topic of exploration is status. This ties in with the motivation of a character. Their status can determine their motivations. Two people with different social status would probably be motivated differently on some level. Financial status would be another example. A wealthy person would have a different […]
I’m getting into a fun territory, the realm of want/needs/desires of the character. Once you start exploring this aspect of a character, they quickly become more believeable. You can put them into a random scene and you should have some idea as to how they would behave. I haven’t as yet completed a story, but […]
The adventures in writing are still continuing. This time the hurdle is characters, more specifically, a lack of personality with most of the characters. The characters are only fulfilling their requirement to any given scene in a story. They generally don’t seem like actual people, which will make it somewhat difficult for a reader to […]