Hi Boo, Do you work in the psychology or human behavior fields? Because your character analyses are pretty deep and thoughtful and my inner mess is utterly grateful when they come up in my feed.

Whoa, that’s super flattering, anon. Thank you! But no, not at all. If anything, even though we’re learning how inaccurate the right-left brain model is, I’m totally a logic/hard science kinda person. I went through school loving math and barely scraping by in English and anything else requiring analysis. 

But I guess we’re not talking about analyzing from that point of view, right, metaphors and motifs and themes and all that? In terms of looking into character motivations, I start from a place of loving them both and reason backwards from that. And in general, I tend to approach other people (and characters) as having reasons that make sense to them for things they do, it’s not about me or what I’d do.