How to Find Your Character’s Object of Desire #author #writer #writing #books #authortube

So if you don't know your character's objects of desire, your writing is never going to work. Here's how to get it right. So for each character in every scene, you should be able to say what they want, and you should be able to say it like this: they want X without having to Y. So they want something, but they don't want to give up something or do something else in order to get it. So for instance, I want coffee without having to leave the house. I want him to tell me that he loves me without me having to say it first. I want the job without having to move to Manhattan. So that one sentence pretty much hands you the rest of the scene. The crisis is when they are forced to choose. They either get what they want, but they have to do that thing they don't want to do, or they're not going to get what they want. Like and subscribe for more writing tips.