Exploring the obstacles your characters face

One of the most powerful ways to explore your characters' motivations and actions are to think about the struggles they face.

K.M. Weiland opens a recent post on this topic by acknowledging that the writing terminology surrounding internal obstacles can vary from advice-giver to advice-giver.

Sometimes they're referring to the same thing, but not always.

So start with her post on differentiating a character's ghost, wound, lie, and weakness at Helping Writers Become Authors.

Then move on to her post on discovering what your character fears and a related post at Writers Helping Writers on five reasons to identify your character's wounding event.

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