Dog With Two Heads

The scene I’m working on just doesn’t want to come to heel. I can’t quite pin down what’s making the characters tick. Sometimes that’s good, it means that the characters have some depth – conflicting  motivations that make them want two things and they can’t have both. But sometimes its bad and means the characters are just operating as dimensionless cyphers for the plot. Not sure which it is tonight. I’ll sleep on it and see if tomorrow brings any answers.

Today’s wordcount: 808

Published by Damien Walter

Writer and storyteller. Contributor to The Guardian, Independent, BBC, Wired, Buzzfeed and Aeon magazine. Special forces librarian (retired). Teaches the Rhetoric of Story to over 35,000 students worldwide.

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