Fight, Flight, or Freeze: What’s Your Character’s Go-To Response? – by Becca Puglisi…
on Writers Helping Writers:
Fight or flight.
I think we’ve all heard the phrase. It refers to the way each person is hard-wired to react to real or perceived danger. Psychologists have recently added another option, giving us three ways we might respond to threats: we fight back, we flee, or we freeze up. This happens in life-or-death situations, but it also occurs on a smaller scale whenever we feel endangered: …
