I hate it when my characters
won't do what I want them to. I tell my protagonist to be mad enough at one of
my antagonists to want to wipe them all out, and all I get is "Why?".
Well, obviously, because they're evil.
My
character doesn't really care about that, because she already has my other
antagonist to be mad at. And she definitely has good reason to be mad at them,
considering they are the reasons for her family all being dead. That's pretty
harsh.
But the
antagonist that I need her to also be
mad at, to wipe out, hasn't ever hurt her. In fact, they are effectively wiping
out the guys she already hates. So what's a writer to do?
The only
thing I can really think of is to have the first bad guys (the ones she already
mad at), threaten her to get rid of the other bad guys. I just don't know if
that's a good enough motivation. If anyone who reads this has any suggestions
(if anyone reads this at all), I'd be open to anything.
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