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Original posting 21 July 2010

Over here http://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/2010/07/greed-is-good.html Jacqueline Lichtenberg talks about High Concept character motivation, using greed as an example. And along the way, she suggests these little exercises. She suggests that doing these is similar to a pianist practicing scales...
  1. Create a POV character who hates greed (because he/she is riddled with it and rejects Self).
  2. Create a POV character who lauds greed and proves that greed is the personality trait to foster if you want to get rich or stay rich.
  3. Create a supporting role character who fights greed in human society. Generate a POV character from the supporting role (B story character), a POV character that the supporting character can redirect.
  4. Create a villain or simple antagonist who either embraces greed or eschews it, but does so with way too much force. Explain why he/she's so obsessed.
  5. Create a character whose hidden fear is that his inner greed will overtake him -- perhaps he starts out living the severe austerity of a street-begging monk with a bowl and a robe, no sandals, and suddenly has to command a galactic fortune that's shrinking alarmingly fast.
  6. Create a greed-theme-based character with your own formula for a character. Then build a world to display that character's lessons in greed.
Greed -- wasn't that one of the cardinal sins? Sure, wrath, greed, sloth, pride, lust, envy, and gluttony. Heck, you could probably try modeling characters and stories around each and every one of those.

Just write!
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