by Ane Mulligan @AneMulligan
Last month, I talked about Core Motivations and how they work with the lie your character believes. Several years ago, my writing was transformed when I learned about the lies our characters believe. Fellow author Amy Wallace studied psychology in college and passed on the informatin to me. Most people believe a lie. It stems in our childhoods and are embedded within us, before we can reason it away.
Let's say your character is a girl. Her father wanted a boy and let her know it. When she was little, he tried to make her play sports, but all she wanted was to play with her dolls. She begged to take ballet lessons instead of playing soccer. Daily, her daddy told how disappointed he was in her. And she believed him. As she grew, this lie colored her worldview. Now, she's tentative/fearful about trying anything new, because she'll disappoint people.
