4 Ways to Motivate Characters and Plot by Guest Colomn
Some of your characters will change during the course of your story—let’s call them changers. Others—stayers--will not change significantly in personality or outlook, but their motivations may nonetheless change as the story progresses from situation to situation. Both changers and stayers can have progressive motivations. Confused? Don’t be; it’s simpler than it may seem. Characters come in four basic types: By Nancy Kress
When you know the key motivation(s) behind your character and plot, you can write scenes that not only make sense to you and your readers, but also add depth to your story. Because character and plot are intertwined, we’ll refer to the above four as character/plot patterns. Let’s further explore each one. Read more . . .
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