Oh Baby, Look at that Backstory and Goals

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Sep 21 2022 | 00:03:42

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Without knowing the backstory, we wouldn’t know the emotional goals of the character, the why for their tangible goals. Instead we’d be reading and thinking, yeah, he wants this. So what?

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