What misconception does your protagonist have about herself or the world?
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she thinks she'll only get approval for accomplishments (in a job she detests deep down) and that nobody really cares about her for herself
What is she lacking mentally,
spiritually or emotionally as a result
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someone to really talk to
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love
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professional fulfillment
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security
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empathy for others
How is the interior lie reflected
in the character’s exterior world?
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she’s basically a XXX
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she was badly scarred by childhood experiences
and being forced to XXX
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she’s not living, she’s surviving
Is the lie making her life
miserable as the story opens? How?
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she can’t let people in, and hides behind
sarcasm and bravado. The one friend she has, she can’t fully open up to.
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She does what she’s told, but she just wants to
get out
- She rebels against XXX and has to deal with the consequences
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She can’t see how XXX is making a difference
in the XXX. She doesn’t care enough to take sides or to talk XXX out of XXX. She doesn’t want to
risk losing her chance at XXX, even though it might cost the lives of the
people she cares about
What event will
make her uncomfortable in her lie?
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the power play resulting from XXX
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XXX's danger vs loyalty to XXX.
Can you use
qualifiers to narrow down the focus of the lie?
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She thinks that she’ll be happy if she’s XXX,
and XXX matters more than people
What are the syptoms of your character’s lie?
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sarcasm, inability to let people in, a hard
exterior, a cold attitude towards suffering, lack of empathy, tendency to solve things with force instead of talking things out
That's mine. Go ahead, try it out on your protag? Did it help?
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