Realizing your character lacks motivation can be a real pain.
There was a time where the characters would never tell me their motives in the first draft. I had to write out the story, and then, having gotten all the action down, they would tell me why it happened.
But there's no reason why it can't be six of one, half a dozen of the other, if her original setting is rather annoying in some respects but useful in others, because it's reliable, or something.
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Date: 2010-07-09 09:19 pm (UTC)There was a time where the characters would never tell me their motives in the first draft. I had to write out the story, and then, having gotten all the action down, they would tell me why it happened.
But there's no reason why it can't be six of one, half a dozen of the other, if her original setting is rather annoying in some respects but useful in others, because it's reliable, or something.