Fifteen minutes long, because you're in a hurry, and we're not that smart.

13.18: Naturally Revealing Character Motivation

Your Hosts: Brandon, Mary, Dan, and Howard

What motivates us? What really motivates us? Why? (Note: our motivations are probably not in service of some overarching plot.) How can we use this information to believably motivate characters?

Credits: This episode was recorded by Dan Thompson, and mastered by Alex Jackson.

Homework: Take a character motivation and express it via free indirect speech. Now take something that has been expressed via free indirect speech and unpack it into the narrative.

Thing of the week: The Ten Cent Plague, by David Hajdu, narrated by Stefan Rudnicki.

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