Thank you for this, Laurie. My protagonist doesn't think she is doing any thing wrong. These children need a mother. Her employer works all the time. She lost her kids. In her mind, she can raise the children as her own. Until she can't. Thanks again for your insight.

Hurray, Lyn and Jan are both on board -- and if anyone else was thinking of signing up at Writer Univ dot com, there are still eight spaces left in the class!

Laura, it's wonderful you'll be at TFoB -- I'll look forward to seeing you there.

And if you're attending my Plotting Via Motivation session, which is either at 10am or 2:30pm Saturday (I forget which program is when), a lot of what you hear will sound familiar after having read this blog. 🙂

Victoria, I'm delighted you shared the insight generously -- that's the best way to go!

And it's easy to see how your current protagonist's motivation isn't changed by circumstances, which is good. Before and after the tragic fire, her driving force was to love children...so her response to the loss of her own makes perfect sense. Even if she's a "villain" keeping babies who aren't her own, she'll be very easy to understand.