Sometimes, a picture just grabs your attention. That’s what this photo did to me. The woman looks a little stunned, caught in some kind of conflict. Use this scene in mirror moment, a moment in the middle of a story when the main character makes a decisions about his or her identity.

Maybe the woman has seen something, and she’s trying to decide if she should intervene. She’s always been a person who tackles problems with guns a-blazing, but serious repercussions to this approach have occurred at the beginning of the story. Now she hesitates, questioning if seeing every problem as a life-and-death battle has been wise. But maybe what she’s witnessed just now requires this attitude. Then again, maybe not.

How would you use this scene in a mirror moment?

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