The practice of fiction169
BelievabilityInformation and history allow you to know your characters better they provide you with elements of their backstory and let you know their motivations and needs. You will then have some realistic notion of how they will react to conflict and situations, and whether their
motivations drive the story or, better still,
drive the story
for you. A recurring question in fiction workshops concerns problems of believability
in characterisation, as in I do not believe X would do/say this Character history does not provide with an alibi, but it will prevent you creating bogus moments of behaviour and speech, or help you correct aberrations in the next draft.
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