We're delving into another of the three elements of story: character. (The three elements being character, setting, and plot 😄) I'm not going in any special order with these.
Last month we built a character starting with an archetype. The last piece was Goal, Motivation, Conflict, a huge subject in its own right.
So let's put it in a nutshell, shall we?
| NAME | INNER | OUTER |
| GOAL | ||
| MOTIVE | ||
| CONFLICT |
Just fill that in and you're good to go!
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Okay, maybe it needs just a little more 🙂. How about an example?
Here's my matrix for Kat in Night's Kiss. I switched the headings because to me, the internal goal is the underlying "why" for the external goal. External goal why? Because internal goal.
| NAME:Kat Kean | OUTER GOAL | INNER GOAL |
| GOAL | Kill all vampires, especially King Vamp. | Fight back against the evil suckers. |
| MOTIVE | Revenge against the suckers who killed her parents and traumatized her sister. | Never feel helpless again. |
| CONFLICT | King Vamp is hard to kill and harder to find. | She's falling in love with a vampire. |
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