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n. (plural of motivation English)

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Any set of character motivations, when examined, fits into one of seven slots: love, curiosity, self-preservation, greed, self-discovery, duty, revenge.

Of course, in almost every story, a combination of two or more of these motivations is necessary to produce a well-rounded hero and a well-rounded villain.

Thus far, we've listed the kinds of motivation you have to choose from, but how do you decide which motivations best fit your characters and story?

The writer's vision must be detailed and believable, or the reader will ultimately not believe anything-not the characters, motivations, or the plot.

Also remember that an alien creature, while having motivations just as humans do, will have substantially different motivations.

I believe you can use all the motivations mentioned in Chapter One, except Duty, to involve the hero in occult or religious experimentation to get your plot moving: He loves a particular woman and wants to enchant her so she'll love him, and he thereby gets mixed up with the Dark Powers.

In sword and sorcery fantasy, all of the character motivations in Chapter One are useful.

The use of several implacable villains not only strengthens the protagonist's motivations for flight, but makes his situation all the more perilous.

If the characters' motivations seem weak or implausible, the reader will notice it at once, and he will swiftly grow bored with your story.

In each of the novels, one of Tobin's motivations, either unspoken or quite evident, is this guilt, a need to make up for what he's done, to repay the debts, to help other people and thereby even his own moral record a little.

Don't forget that you must strengthen the hero's motivations whenever possible and not propel him through a long chase simply for revenge.

When I chose the proper characters and motivations, those too came naturally, with very little work.

I want you to learn of him, to understand the motivations of his every move.

Drizzt knew that Entreri was not stupid, though, and while he and Drizzt were of similar fighting skills, their motivations surely separated them.

If anyone could understand the motivations and private thoughts of mysterious and dangerous K'yorl, it would be the illithid, El-Viddenvelp.