Mean in a fictional sense, of course (as something for the Good Guys to overcome, which makes it positive), so that’s okay, then – Reading through my latest work on my latest manuscript yesterday (which was my decided Happiness Day), it bothered me that there is lack of hostility going on between – no, I’m not going to tell you – The scenes I’m looking at are nasty and cold, and nasty-cold is extra mean, I know, but somehow this is lacking a motivator – Anger, for preference, which got me kinda thinking, Oh Sh-

 -oot!

How am I going show the motivation behind the action without an unreasonable rant from the character who is not out of control enough to give one?

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