“The strongest argument against writing passive characters is that they make the writer passive, and that in turn makes the audience passive, and when the emotional interaction between the characters and the audience is reduced it becomes more and more difficult to care about what’s going on in the story. Every story that pulls us in is usually rich in possibilities. The possibilities in a story as in life always increase when the characters in the story and the those outside of it (the audience) decide to ACT rather than react. Active participation and engagement always trumps reactive spectatorship.”
- Billy Marshall Stoneking
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