alex-flinn

It would be so great to have someone my own age to talk to, even if it was just about books.

A memory came to me. One time, in middle school, a famous author came to talk to our class and give a writing workshop. One of the things she told us about writing a novel was that the story should be about what the main character wants. Dorothy wants to go home to Kansas. George Milton wants a farm of his own. Amelia Sedley wants to marry her darling George and live happily ever after. The end of the story, according to the famous author, is when the character either gests what he wants or realizes he__ never going to get it. Or sometimes, she said, like Scarlett O__ara in Gone With the Wind, realizes she doesn__ actually want what she thought she wanted all along. pg. 324 of Bewitching

Sometimes it also helps to have a bit less pride.