Write Lightning is a blog from writer Deb Thompson.
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Everyone is welcome here.
(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Thu, May 20 2010
Mixed motives
Two situations crossed my path today, one involving older people and one involving younger people. It took me a good part of the day to figure out that the situations had some parallels and that each situation had something to teach me about communication and about human worth. We are each faced with choices every day that can either precipitate fellowship and kindness or that can feed frustration and resentment between people. No one's motives are one-hundred percent pure. We're human. Fiction writers can use this in our writing. It's easy to present a villain that is all bad. It takes much more skill and wisdom to present a character that has mixed motives, much like the people we encounter in real life.
posted at: 14:39 | category: /Writing Life | link to this entry
Two situations crossed my path today, one involving older people and one involving younger people. It took me a good part of the day to figure out that the situations had some parallels and that each situation had something to teach me about communication and about human worth. We are each faced with choices every day that can either precipitate fellowship and kindness or that can feed frustration and resentment between people. No one's motives are one-hundred percent pure. We're human. Fiction writers can use this in our writing. It's easy to present a villain that is all bad. It takes much more skill and wisdom to present a character that has mixed motives, much like the people we encounter in real life.
posted at: 14:39 | category: /Writing Life | link to this entry
