“Why?” That is the answer I get every time I write about a character’s background.
I didn’t quite realize this until now. I have a character behaving in a certain way, but I don’t really know why. Until I have explored the background.
Why is she so passive? Why doesn’t she make any decisions? Because she has been living with far too dominant man for so many years.
What does it add to the story by knowing this?
I don’t know yet.
She might have an attitude towards men. She is likely to expect people to arrange things for her, to make things work.
If she as well have been told that she can’t do anything, and what she does, she executes bad, she is likely to excuse herself every time she dares to do anything.
I have one more character to work with in “The Beautymaker” and three in “ERG”.
Then it is time to start Final Draft and write. At last.
"Scared child"
By D. Sharon Pruitt
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