Hi, friends. I’ve been thinking about agency this week - the degree to which characters, and maybe writers themselves, have agency to act, how the limitations that we have made for them, and ourselves, dictate the range of what’s possible in terms of plot and action. (Even moreso if you are writing memoir or creative non-fiction and bound up by the pesky nature of truth.) It seems to me there is sometimes a desire, especially as we revise or workshop, to ratchet up the stakes to a fever pitch because we don’t want to disappoint readers, agents won’t take it, etc, etc.
On Agency
On Agency
On Agency
Hi, friends. I’ve been thinking about agency this week - the degree to which characters, and maybe writers themselves, have agency to act, how the limitations that we have made for them, and ourselves, dictate the range of what’s possible in terms of plot and action. (Even moreso if you are writing memoir or creative non-fiction and bound up by the pesky nature of truth.) It seems to me there is sometimes a desire, especially as we revise or workshop, to ratchet up the stakes to a fever pitch because we don’t want to disappoint readers, agents won’t take it, etc, etc.