Nymphs Finding the Head of Orpheus.
Dear Dr Solv,
My protag has been very uncooperative lately, showing blatant disregard for my hard-won plot, making decisions contrary to those I require of him.
Please help!
Anon.
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Dear Anon,
It sounds to me that your protag isn't ready to make the decisions you have chosen for him. Perhaps his motivation is at the wrong place?
I'd suggest jiggling the plot to ensure that his motivation is such that he will make the correct choices. This might mean that you add a new scene, or that you remove/move a scene that is nudging his motivation in the wrong direction.
Hope this helps!
Dr Solv.
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Dear Dr Solv,
Thank you! Your advice was spot on! I wrote out my protag's motivations chronologically and considered his desires at the trouble spots and he wasn't ready for the big decisions!
It only took a minor adjustment to an existing scene to put things right! Now everything is back on track!
Allow me to buy you dinner!
Anon.
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Dear Anon,
Are you a pretty, single woman, ideally with her own Literary Agency?
Dr Solv.
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Dear Dr Solv,
No. I'm a hairy, single man with his own blog. Any good?
Anon.
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No reply.
1 comment:
This entry in your blog is one of the things I've been constantly telling myself about: naturalness. It was funny because it was simple. It worked because it was simple.
No description, no backstory, no subterfuge, no messing. Shows you more about storytelling than a bookshelf of manuals.
Good! I knew I was right, and this confirmed some of the things I've been doing.
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