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4 Ways to Motivate Characters and Plot

By Nancy Kress

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:

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1. 4 Ways to Motivate Characters and Plot http://ow.ly/jdGM8 by Nancy Kress
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3. Goals! Are You Making Them Too Obvious? http://t.co/yJviwbCy59 RT @janice_hardy
4. Write Like a Lawyer: 5 Tips for Fiction Writers: http://t.co/zbbHTPVxlR @ChuckSambuchino
5. Why One-Star Reviews Matter: http://t.co/Mlz3IljkOn @selfpubreview RT @elizabethscraig
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8. Marketing Tips 4 Authors: Should you judge a book by its cover? http://ow.ly/jf1rE by @CliveEaton
9. The Bookshelf Muse: Book Signings That WOW http://t.co/bE625AZjaH RT @Janice_Hardy
10. The Quest for the Best Word Ever http://ow.ly/jf5ak via Daily Writing Tips
11. Marketing Tips for Authors: Sell more books with Createspace http://ow.ly/jf1Ip by @CliveEaton
12. Narrative Arcs and Progressions http://ow.ly/jfB0r via Fiction Notes
13. 12 Basic Steps to Publishing through Create Space http://ow.ly/jfBhf via @TeamMegaphone
14. How Being Tired Can Make You a Better Writer http://ow.ly/jfHsm via @KristenLambTX
15. Be Your Own Book Doctor http://ow.ly/jfHCW via @Janice_Hardy
16. A Twitter Spring Cleaning Checklist http://ow.ly/jfIVv Give your Twitter profile design a refresh . . .
17. 26 Ways to Use Visuals in Your Social Media Marketing http://ow.ly/jfJv1 via @smexaminer
18. Make a Living as a Writer – Part 1 via @RachelleGardner http://ow.ly/jfJLS 

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