Quick Tips #3 || Motivation

What About Action Stories?

 

SPEAKING OF motivation, it's important in all fiction, doubly so in action.
 
Most of us pay a great deal of attention to what motivates the hero and heroine. But what about your villain? Let's not cop out and say the poor guy just loves to shoot people or his mother didn't feed him so he strangles women. 
 
As readers, we want to know what makes people tick, the good and the bad. As writers, it's vital that we know, that we slowly reveal these motivations to readers. We can relate on some level even to anti-heroes if we understand them. In drawing your characters, even the killers, it's good to keep in mind that no one is all black or all white.
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ddeokbxkkii #1
These few chapters really helped a lot! I think I'm going to keep coming back to this tutorial whenever I'm stuck! :P Thank you so much!
okinawa #2
Chapter 1: this is what i needed! i'm trying to work on an action fic but i've never write story in that genre which makes it harder for me. Thanks for making a tutorial/workshop like this ^^
ddeokbxkkii #3
Chapter 1: Oh I'm stalking this! I'm currently planning a action fic too! Actually the outline, character info everything is more or less out. But I'm going to read this and take some advice. :) Even with just the planning, I actually had a lot of fun with it. Maybe it's because I'm finally really putting this idea of mine down. Because mine is more of a secret agent/double identity kind of thing, I researched more on the system than the weapons.. maybe I'm doing it wrong. I'm still at my planning stage so I'm going to see how this workshop can help me! ^^
Kay_tea114 #4
Oh hi.

Thanks for mentioning my workshop? I'm happy that you found inspiration in my workshop to start your own. Good luck!
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