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Showing posts with label Change the World with Your Writing: Taking Characters to Greater Depths (Part 2). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Change the World with Your Writing: Taking Characters to Greater Depths (Part 2). Show all posts

March 23, 2020

Change the World With Your Writing~Taking Characters to Greater Depths (Part 2)



p. m. terrell     @pmterrell

Award-winning "Twist and Turn" author



In Part 1, we explored external factors that plunge the main character into a journey of transformation. In Part 2, we explore the internal force that can accomplish the transformation.

An internal force is something that the character suffers due to their own action or inaction, plunging them into a personal journey.

Inaction occurs when the character should have taken steps to avoid a potentially cataclysmic event, but their efforts either fell short or were nothing at all. An example is when the character hears that tiny voice urging them not to take that deserted road, but they ignore it and do so anyway. Of course, the road leads to danger, and they must discover an inner part of themselves to overcome the obstacles in their path, escape the danger, and arrive on the other side.