novel story - Writing 101 - Character Motivation research requires

If your characters are not trained, your letter will be boring to your reader. Note that I said, "player", not "readers". The reader will not you!
Nobody wants to read a novel or a new ho hum.
Take a look at two authors and the characters that they founded.
Edgar Allen Poe
Edgar Allan Poe, the 19th in Boston Born in January 1809 and died seventh October 1849 in Baltimore, is best known for his poems and short stories. It develops new and created the detective story. It was not very successful in life, but is famous in death.
Try to keep this kind of situation for you.
psychological behavior has been of great interest to Poe, perhaps because he himself was a little strange. He used this knowledge to create an unforgettable psychological thriller.
In The Tell-Tale Heart (1843), Poe decided to first use. If the first paragraph:
TRUE! - Nervous - very, very dreadfully nervous I was and am, but why do you say I'm crazy? The disease had my senses - not destroyed - not dulled not sharpened. Above all, the sense of hearing. I heard all things in heaven and on earth. I heard many things in hell. So how am I crazy? Listen! and see how well - how calmly I can tell you the whole story.
Character is like a fruit cake mother that a psychotic killer who buried his victims under the floor. He thinks he can hear the heart against the corpse away. Anxiety, fear, anxiety and fear that some of his craziness.
The character is driven by his own mind abnormal.
Gary Jennings
Gary Jennings was born 20 September 1928 in Buena Vista, Virginia. He graduated from Eastside High School in Paterson, New Jersey, and was mostly self-taught thereafter. His novels were known for historical details and graphic content. Jennings novels are well documented: he has lived for 12 years in Mexico in search of Aztec novels. He died nine circus artists during the preparation of Spangle. Gary Jennings February 13, 1999 in Pompton Lakes, New Jersey. Like me, Gary was in Korea. He was a writer, but it was with the bronze star.
After reading his novel, Aztec, I came across some original articles by anthropologists to describe the Aztec culture. There was no doubt in my mind that Gary had to read some of these articles in his research.
Gary loved the adventure, and his characters are often motivated by curiosity and a desire for adventure. We read that in the possessed:
When Marco Polo was on his deathbed, his priests, his friends and relatives clustered around him claim that he finally gave up are the countless lies he had told his real adventure, when his soul is purified in the sky. The old man stood up and denounced all of them said: "I wanted to say, half of what I had seen and done!"
Gary Jennings was a bit like Marco Polo and his admiration for Marco Polo was the reason why he wrote the possessed L '.
So you have learned something here?
If the writer is not motivated - or motivated by the will of the people.
Now you do not cut off the ear.
Do you have a Ph.D. in History, "a historical novel to write?
No!
What you need, the motivation, not only in the history books, but in visiting the places in which to study history instead.
Okay! You may not be able to travel because of cost, but with thorough research, you can crank a historical novel.
I have never written a historical novel, but I made a lot of research because my novels often have a historical background.
If you write to for money, you can shortcut that affect your writing. I always say: "Leave a writer!" If you write your interest in selling, do your homework - even if it takes years.
Then, to write with passion.
Yesterday I took a used copy of Margaret Mead came of age in Samoa. When I use to Samoa as a setting in my novel, I would certainly read this book (again) to determine not only the creation but the motivation of my characters.
For example, the protagonist (hero, star) do not have sex with his girlfriend because he wants to preserve her virginity. Why does he do it? Because it is the upper class and who knows that her virginity in connection with a public ceremony displayed. If it proves to be, he (not she) will receive a great honor as a virgin.
Now that the scenario (situation) would not be well received by my readers, if I have the scene in Camden, New Jersey with the Americans, instead of the Samoans are the signs set.
Authors often use culture shock on the stage set for their writings. But that is another matter.
Some of the reasons that I have used in my novels "
Bull: The chief witness for the murder of his family when he was a child. He later learned that the wealth and power a person can be protected from such events. He built an empire Intermountain. He uses his power to control or eliminate his enemies.
Mogollon Rim Revenge: The protagonist runs away from home because he does not want to kill the husband of the woman who seduces him. Work as MP, he learns that if you create enough hatred of one person, you can kill him in cold blood.
Bone China: The enemy considers Adolf Hitler a genius and decided to build an empire Nazi secret in America.
Guilty No Way In: The late husband of the heroine was a player.
Again, I say: "Leave a writer."
If you are unsure of the motivations of your character, then start the novel. Once you know the field (what happens) and the motivation of the characters cast the first draft now! Fast Write your novel again. You'll see that a significant improvement could perk the interest of a literary agent - if the money is your motivation
One last tip: you can not get into the spirit of your character when you view the scene through a television camera (Panorama). I use the first person or that my teacher writes the former called "third person subjunctive. Below you can your readers what is happening on the other by eye, show ears, nose, spirit, etc., your protagonist.
Need an example?
Scenic View: The wind blew from the north - a Chinook, the adiabatic compression of air (which warms the air), as the wind on the slopes of the Rocky Mountains. Scientists say the winds are common in Colorado. Leaving the air is cooled down, you move your finger to see it through the expansion of the air. Compression heats the air, as explained above. This gives you heating and cooling with compression-expansion. Well, what happens in your refrigerator - blah, blah, blah. George Undo the buttons of his blue jacket with white stripes that his friend, Joe Plate, gave him. The wind felt good - blah, blah, blah.
First Person: I am selling the buttons of my coat. The wind was hot and it was a relief from the freezing period of only one hour. I do not know what the wind is warm as fast as that - but I'm happy for them.
Third person perfect: Jenny looked out the window of the Ranch House. Where's Jed? It found that the water flowed onto the rail of the fence. She said: "It must be a Chinook! She went out onto the porch - if naked - hot finger and made a wind to caress her body. She has played in the white snow, until it can clearly see the pilot," Oh Come, now is Jed. I would wear better. "
Writers write! We also read our things to our women because we are so vain. Here is what my wife has the third perfect example proposed:
Jenny looked out the window of the Ranch House. Where's Jed? It found that the water flowed onto the rail of the fence. She said: "It must be a Chinook! She went out onto the porch - his coat tossed on the old rocking chair - and allowed hot wind fingers on the skin of the arms and face to stroke. She has played in the white snow to it can clearly see the pilot, "Oh, come now is Jed. I prefer to take off. "
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