Driving Forces

From Breathing Life Into Your Characters, a list of factors which drive characters (in life, as in fiction):

• frustration
• apprehension
• loathing
• terror
• anguish
• fear
• loneliness
• anger
• worry

Types of conflict resolution to deal with the above:

• Double-approach
• Double avoidant
• Approach-avoidant (this is the addiction category)

And here's the part I like best, and which I reckon will be fertile seed for future writing assignments ! Coping mechanisms:

• compensation
• denial
• conversion
• sublimation (channelling unacceptable feelings)
  
• compulsive-obsessive
• identification
• projection
• repression
• suppression
• undoing
• rationalization
• addiction