Last week you began a deep dive into your characters pasts, this week lets keep exploring. Ask yourself what was the most traumatic event that happened to your characters before the story began. How did they act at the time of the trauma? How long ago was the trauma? How does the event still affect them today?
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Practical Prompt 8-16-17
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Practical Prompt 8-9-17
Over the next month we’re going to delve more into your characters’ backstories and the past events that shaped the characters’ motivations, personalities and sense of morality. The things that your characters experienced in their lives before your story begins will affect how they act throughout your story.
To start, ask yourself whether or not your characters like themselves. What happened in their pasts that led them dislike or like who they are now?
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