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I miss working in a reptile center and ppl would just come in like “we found this turtle. Nothings wrong with him. We brought it in just in case you want it.”

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Put it back

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How to write a character-driven plot

The Character-Driven Plot Wheel

1. Emotions drive actions.

Make your hero act on their deepfelt emotions. This not only adds meaning to their actions, but also helps communicate to readers your hero’s core emotional struggle.

2. Actions trigger consequences.

When your hero acts, give their actions consequences that affect the plot, themselves, and/or the surrounding characters. For example, driven by curiosity, maybe your hero opens Pandora’s box; maybe they act recklessly and someone dies; or maybe they stand up for what they believe in, but at great personal cost. Consequences raise the stakes and empower your hero with agency.

3. Consequences compel change.

Use the consequences of your hero’s actions to create a crucible of growth — challenges and situations that force them to take the next step on their character journey. That step may be forward, or backward, and it may be large or small; but something inside them changes.

4. Change influences emotions.

When a character goes through a change, even a small one, allow it to affect them emotionally. Maybe they feel increasingly frustrated or guilty. Maybe they’re afraid, having just taken another step closer to abandoning their old way of seeing the world. Or maybe they finally feel peace.

Regardless of the form it takes, remember to reflect your hero’s change in their emotions. Then let their emotions drive action, to trigger consequences, which will compel further change.

Lather. Rinse. Repeat.

And there you have it! That’s how you write a character-driven plot.

So what do you say?

Give the wheel a spin.

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Your stories are worth telling. For tips on how to craft meaning, build character-driven plots, and grow as a writer, follow my blog.

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That wasn’t the question. I think you misunderstood me.

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Zack Mcconnell - Dream Squad

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Amirah Manning - Dream Squad

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Pemberton “Pepper” Donwald - Dream Squad

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Naomie Koroma - Dream Squad

Archetypes: The Romantic & The Pacifist

Date of Birth: July 6, 2001

Age: 19

Major: English Literature

Aesthetics: the smell of dried flowers, fresh steeped tea, dew on the grass, a tiny kittens paw, ink stained fingers, notebook filled to the brim with writing, meeting under a willow tree at midnight, a stretch right after waking up

General Facts: she is an only child, she wants to become an english teacher, she always smells like flowers, she’s a loner but not because people don’t like her, she spends most of her time deep in thought, she carries several notebooks around, she writes her dreams as poetry.

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Tao Moy - Dream Squad

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Vera Moy - Dream Squad

Archetype: The Jock & The Leader

Date of Birth: April 30, 2000

Age: 20

Major: Kinesiology

Aesthetics: The crack of a bat as it connects with the ball, bright stadium lights after dark, pushing yourself just a little further, a sharp inhale before action, the sore feeling deep in your muscles after a workout, a room full of gold trophies.

General Facts: Got in to school on a baseball scholarship, brother left home when she was eight years old, still lives at home, she had severe hearing loss, has cochlear implant but still struggles with some hearing loss,

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you know what i love? established apocalypse aesthetics

leaves and flowers and trees growing out of abandoned houses and cars, smashing glass windows, invading and reclaiming the spaces humanity took from them

warning scrawled hastily on the sides of buildings in spraypaint or in blood; don’t come here, it’s not safe. turn away, go back. we died here. you will too.

notes and messages scattered across the world, addressed to people who never saw them or never lived to reply to them. rachel, we’re alive. david, don’t look for us. amy, dad got bit, please come home, we need you. kim, i love you. 

people broken into tiny groups. society shattered. they are past the anger, past denial, past trying to fix any of it. now there is only begrudging acceptance, and the knowledge that nothing is ever going to get better. the only thing they can do is survive.

a skeleton lying at the foot of a tree, flowers blooming in its ribcage. a bloodstained note in its front pocket. ‘sorry, mom’. travelers see it and barely spare a thought; such things are commonplace.

roaming packs of dogs and cats still wearing their collars, centuries of domestication breaking down under the need to live and to keep living

families born of blood and sacrifice. trading stories over campfires about who they used to be, who they might have been, what they could have become if none of this ever happened. looks of understanding when someone loses a sister, a brother, a father. it happened to me, too.

abandoned bedrooms combed over for supplies, but the faded posters still hanging on the walls and the useless knickknacks on the shelves tell the stories of the people who lived there years ago

moss covering television sets, water lapping up into backyards, tree limbs shooting up through collapsed roofs, evidence of humanity being eroded one day at a time

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The main character in my most recent WIP is a poc, trans and a lesbian and my “friend” asked “why is the main character trans, poc and lesbian, you aren’t” and I??? Why can’t they be all three??? Not all my characters are me???

Authors b like "aha I'm so inclusive of the lgbt community." but forget trans and nonbinary people exist.

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Whump Prompt #35

A character being forced to hallucinate rescue over and over again to the point that when they are rescued, they think it’s a trick. They lie there, shaking and terrified, pleading and flinching away from their loved ones.

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Y’all active writeblrs out there, mind rb-ing this post? Dash is dying and could use some new mutuals of y’all are up for it 😉

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I’ve been wanting to do one of the forever

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Marian Moeen (Maid Marian) - A broke political science major who minors in fashion, she’s also Robin’s roommate.

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My first self-published book!

Link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1701841940

Summary:

An average day in Emily Gardner's life includes working as a freelance Spellcaster, tending to her garden full of magical herbs, and training her niece, Victoria, how to cast spells under the moonlight.

Her daily routine is shattered, however, when one day the wind disappears, and the spirit of the sea declares war on the spirit of the moon. Emily must now choose between her duty as a Spellcaster of the Moon and her responsibility to protect her family.

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