Now there's the spirit. Who wouldn't drag them along too? But #amwriting my problems in them? Or other way around?
I zapped out my clever, instant response, but I'm pondering now. Perhaps some truth leaked out.
Am I writing my problems in my characters? Or am I bringing my characters to the problems? This is more than just clever wordplay.
I think what I should want to do, what I should hope to do, would be the latter.
The former is unimaginative. The former is mere camouflage. It is narrow and self-absorbed.
The latter assumes the characters are fully realized, and then forced to face the problems. The problems have been separated from me, and are now universal problems. Everyman problems.
The resolution of these problems is now a meaningful process that could help or enlighten readers for years to come.
Meaningfulness elevates fiction.
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