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What motivates your characters?

By Catherine M. Wallace
Published: April 4, 2011
In a Step by Step article in the May 2011 issue of The Writer, Catherine M. Wallace discussed how to use knowledge of human motivation to create good conflict in fiction. Following is her form that writers can use (and make multiple copies of) to access the layers of motivation. See the main article for context and elaboration.
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