Rethinking Motivation for Character Arc: guest post on Writer Unboxed

You all know about Writer Unboxed, right? Where Therese Walsh and Kathleen Bolton unleash every day the awesome power of the writers’ mentoring community upon aspiring writers of the world? Where I was hosted last winter with 3 Layers of ‘Layering’ in Fiction, while Therese appeared here with her wonderful Fear Management for Storytellers? Well, guess what. Marvelous Therese!

She’s offered to host an excerpt from The Art & Craft of Story: 2nd Practitioner’s Manual today, a brass-tacks discussion of how to approach revision through a step-by-step exploration of your protagonist’s motivation, that essential fuel for why they do everything they do. Only backward. Please join us for: Rethinking Motivation for Character Arc.