Motives for characters

Character archetypes share core truths about people's personalities, goals, fears and weaknesses. Learn how to use them well in your own fiction.

“Cut-out and keep: character motivations”

I've listed a few possible character motives in the image below and I would encourage you to play around with different ways of interpreting and applying them.

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I decided it was probably time for me to knock together a little list of character goals... This list is a lot shorter than my list of motives, mainly because I've tried to keep these very general even though goals are usually very specific to the story, but I hope you'll find it helpful.

Character Traits in Knave