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Two Forward, and One Back (Character goals Part II)

Two Forward, and One Back (Character goals Part II)

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Feb 20, 2023
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Last week I posted about character goals, internal and external, conscious and otherwise, and using Maslow’s hierarchy of human needs to think about the possibilities of the “internal.”

We might call this post “Character goals - Part II.”

We’ll look at what it can be to work with these goals for pacing, and creating storylines that resonate as real. A lot of funny things can happen on the way to somewhere you want to go. Or think you want to go…

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