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.

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“Cut-out and keep: character motivations”

Well, we have finally come to the end of my impromptu series of lists of motives, goals, conflicts and epiphanies for your character, and so it wouldn't take a genius to work out that today's little list is all about epiphanies.

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