Every good story needs an interesting and compelling character, centered in a riveting set of events that force her or him to reveal their best, and worst qualities. What do we call these set of events that push and prod the major character to show her or his mettle, their tenacious and persevering personality? Obstacles.
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Stories come to us in many ways. Some of us receive them in images, others in certain ideal we desire to see played out. Some of us get the plot. And the some of us get taken by a character that won’t let us go. They fill our thoughts and days. We listen to them
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We’ve all heard as writers that character feeds, or drives plot. But how often does someone show us how this occurs? As a psychotherapist, wife and mother of 3 along with being an author I’ve given a lot of thought to this. Also my stories a heavily character driven. I think an awful lot about
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