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[pbray]

Dripping with sweat here, as I finish polishing up The First Betrayal, where coincidentally much of the action takes place in a lizard infested tropical city.

While biking today I came up with the three basic character motivations, which I offer for your edification.

1) Oooh, shiny! Must have.

2) Hmm, puzzle. Wonder what happens when I press this button?

3) All I need is a six pack of cold beer and ESPN. Who do I have to kill to get them?

And now back to salt mines.

Comments

lol

[wen-spencer.livejournal.com]

i wish my motivations could be so simple.....hmmmm....maybe my problem is that I try for too complex.

Re: lol

[pbray.livejournal.com]

Mine were starting to rival Dune in their labyrinth intricacies, so I figured it was time to get back to basics :-)

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

My entire world was turned upside down several years ago when I was struggling with how motivation worked and a friend of mine said, "Hallo. My name is Inigo Montoya. You keeled my father. Prepare to die."

And I realized: motivation is simple. Actions from those motivations might be horrendously complicated, but motivation itself, the very bare bones of it, is simple. The six-fingered man killed my father. Voila. This is the motivation for everything Inigo does for the rest of his life. I have never been so grateful as I was to that friend in that moment, I tell you, because *wow*.

So I like your motivations. Nice and simple. :)

[pbray.livejournal.com]

>>a friend of mine said, "Hallo. My name is Inigo Montoya. You keeled my father. Prepare to die."


I like your friend.

[jlawrenceperry.livejournal.com]

Sounds like the ancient Aztecs. Those guys knew how to have fun.