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DONALD MAASS WRITE TIP #93
What does your MC most need to know about
him/herself? Give him/her 3 reasons not to care…then tear them down
“The
human workers are trapped in the open. You can’t tell me you can
stand there and watch while they suffer,” said Rose.
Nyne
closed his eyes. “I may take a step away from the window. Maybe put my fingers
in my ears.”
“Don’t
you care about them?" she asked. "But the wolves will rip them apart!”
“That
may be the one time they won’t be insisting that whoever made the mess should
remember to tidy it up.”
Rose
stared at him in bewilderment. “You have to care.”
“There
is no care in Cared For–just so much
rejection.” Nyne took a step away. “Care costs about £8 an hour and it doesn’t
give change.”
“You
don’t care?” Rose held out a hand
towards him.
“They
taught me well,” he said. His breath hissed through his teeth. “I don’t care.”
“There’s
no reason to be mean. That’s not fair. You push everyone away.”
Nyne
blinked. He dug his fingers into the spaces between the bricks under the window
sill. “I don’t mean to be mean - chalk that down to my Forcefield of Sarcasm.”
“Aren’t
they like your family?”
“Yeah,
sure,” he said angrily and kicking at the wooden skirting board he stepped away
from the window and folded his arms. “I’m sure, if that was me out there they’d
all care enough to line for the job of standing shoulder-to-shoulder beside me
– hell they’d put themselves between me and the terminal trouble.”
Everything
in the old cottage fell silent. Rose frowned. She nodded. “I would.”
Nyne
let out the breath he hadn’t realised he’d been holding.
What does your MC need to know about him/herself?
DOES S/HE CARE?
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