Character motivation and back story

How often do we make things up about other people, based off the smallest pieces of evidence?

A random tweet.

A profile pic. 

A like.

A comment.

A follow. 

We are always making up stories about other people—and you can apply that to your fiction and non-fiction too.

Revealing character and character motivation one tweet, photo and comment at a time.

You can even be playful about it—leading the reader to make up their own stories about what they think they saw, heard, felt. Who they think this character/person is.

You can use back story and misdirection to create suspense and engage the reader. 

Even in non-fiction, you can play with how predictable/unpredictable you/the narrator/the reader are.

As you do, you might find you know less about other people than you thought you did. 

You might even learn a thing or two about you.