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"Witches escape to the forest to listen to the whispers of nature itself." -Dacha Avelin

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“What are lies but attempts to conceal some sort of weakness?”

― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

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“That is the thing with giving your heart. You never wait for someone to ask. You hold it out and hope they want it”

― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

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How to construct character psychology!

– Introduction

Hello hello! :D I’ve been very slow with my writing lately due to uni work (and some unforeseen health issues), but I’d like to still be able to make content and be interactive in the writing community, so I’m here again to share some advice based on my own experiences! One of my favourite things about writing is writing characters, specifically constructing a character’s psychology. I’d like to preface this post by saying that while I’ve had formal classes in psychology, I’m by no means any sort of expert within the field, and I also don’t believe that every aspect of how a character is written needs to be rooted in realism. However, I do want to share some insights that I got from it, and also because I feel like “character psychology” has this very mystified weight to it that makes it seem a lot bigger and intimidating than it needs to be.

So! My goal is just to share some advice on how to break down a character’s psychology and work from there! If you like what you read and would like to read more, I’ve also written a post about creating “complex” characters, which you can find the link to here! Aaand yes I think that’s about all I have to say beforehand, I hope you enjoy :,)

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"For coffee-stained girls in libraries." -A Lesson in Vengeance

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Salvatore Postiglione (1861–1906), Dante and Beatrice (detail)

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"For pride and avarice and envy are the three fierce sparks that set all hearts ablaze.”

― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

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“At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such pain.”

― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

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“It wouldn’t have been failure to be bankrupt, dishonoured, pilloried, hanged; it was failure not to be anything. ”

― Henry James, The Beast in the Jungle

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"We were never supposed to be in love; for everything that exists inside a heart eventually dies." -Laura Chouette

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“What I need is perspective. The illusion of depth, created by a frame, the arrangement of shapes on a flat surface. Perspective is necessary. Otherwise there are only two dimensions. Otherwise you live with your face squashed up against a wall, everything a huge foreground, of details, close-ups, hairs, the weave of the bedsheet, the molecules of the face. Your own skin like a map, a diagram of futility, criscrossed with tiny roads that lead nowhere. Otherwise you live in the moment. Which is not where I want to be.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

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“A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

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“But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

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@lovesdaya

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"We are all of us more complicated than the roles we are assigned in the stories other people tell.”

― Tara Westover, Educated

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“It’s strange how you give the people you love so much power over you.”

― Tara Westover, Educated

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"The thinker did not matter, so long as thought remained.”

― N.K. Jemisin, How Long 'til Black Future Month?

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