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This tag should be used to ask about in-universe motivation, such as asking about ways to depict a character's motivation.
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Still struggling with character desire, positive vs. negative, hooking readers
Therefore negative feelings resonate more strongly and can be easier to see as an immediate motivation of what happens and why a character acts the way he acts. … The problem is the long term motivation. Running away is not really a motivation unless your book is supposed to end in a tragedy. …
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How to communicate character desire?
You are on the right track, but apparently your showing was not explicit enough. A possible problem might be that you have a perfectly fine image of the mother in your mind, but you never communicated …
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