Nov 07

Motivations

Posted: under Craft.
Tags: ,  November 7th, 2009

As mentioned, some alpha readers found “motivation holes” in the book.  Motivation holes arise when a) a character’s actions aren’t tied to a motivation or b) when the reader doesn’t find the motivations shown to be believable.   Motivation is a huge topic–critical to the success of any story–and it’s a fragile, brittle link between writer and reader.

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