Hitting some stumbling blocks in a lot of my fiction writing lately. I realized recently that the MC in my longest on-going project has no motivation of their own. They go on the quest because everyone wants them to and, well, that's the plot. Moving them from Point A to Point B to Point C to reveal various plot points is the whole point. But they're boring because they don't want anything.
All this is making me sorely miss my old friend Lauren. We were very close after meeting in college until i left Ohio. She was so intimately versed with this novel I've been working on all this time that it was so easy to brainstorm with her without it turning into an info dump. I miss having someone who was that invested in my writing that I could have really deep conversations with them about it and work out problems in it with them.
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