{"id":1419,"date":"2016-12-15T08:17:19","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T16:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/?p=1419"},"modified":"2017-01-03T19:34:38","modified_gmt":"2017-01-04T03:34:38","slug":"what-chases-your-characters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/what-chases-your-characters\/","title":{"rendered":"What Chases Your Characters?"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Melanie Anne Phillips<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"A goal is what the characters chase, but what chases the characters?\u00a0 Answer: the Consequences. \u00a0Consequences<\/span>\u00a0double the dramatic tension in a story by providing a negative result if the goal is not achieved.<\/p>\n

Consequences may be emotional or logistic, but the more intense they are, the greater the tension.\u00a0 <\/span>Often they\u00a0provide greater depth if there are emotional consequences when there is an external goal, and external consequences if there is an emotional goal.<\/p>\n

Your story might be about avoiding the consequences or it might begin with the consequences already in place, and the goal is intended to end them.<\/p>\n

If the consequences are intense enough, they\u00a0can help provide motivation for characters who have no specific personal goals.<\/p>\n

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By Melanie Anne Phillips A goal is what the characters chase, but what chases the characters?\u00a0 Answer: the Consequences. \u00a0Consequences\u00a0double the dramatic tension in a story by providing a negative result if the goal is not achieved. Consequences may be emotional or logistic, but the more intense they are, the greater the tension.\u00a0 Often they\u00a0provide […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plot"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p36xpN-mT","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1419"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1755,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions\/1755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}