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Writing Excuses 6.2: Internal Motivations

Writing Excuses

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The Importance of Understanding Your Motive

Kirkpatrick: Your character's motivations can shift in response to what is happening in their lives. When they don't, that's when you start running into flat characters. He was rewatching Scott Pilgrim last night and it struck him again how the overall motivation was the same. But each aspect of this getting vengeance, each time she fights someone new, your heart wrenches a little bit.

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