2. I’m going to try a new feature on Fridays and share some of my favorite quotes, on writing most often but occasionally about other things.
Here’s one of my favorites to kick things off. This comes from agent and writing guru Donald Maass’s book WRITING THE BREAKOUT NOVEL:
Every protagonist needs a torturous need, a consuming fear, an aching regret, a visible dream, a passionate longing, an inescapable ambition, an exquisite lust, an inner lack, a fatal weakness, an unavoidable obligation, an iron instinct, an irresistible plan, a noble ideal, an undying hope… whatever it is that in the end propels him beyond the boundaries that confine the rest of us and brings about fulfilling change.
Great, huh?
Have a great weekend, everyone!