Many of our models for writing and for thinking about plot and plot-construction go back to a common workshop question: “What does this character want?” Or: “What is this character afraid of?”…
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From Charles Baxter’s lecture “The Request Moment: or, ‘There’s Something I Want You to Do’”
I remember having dinner with a journalist, a decent enough guy, afflicted with “The Danger I’ve Been Through Is Bigger Than the Danger You’ve Been Through” disease. It’s a pretty common form of one-upmanship, but since he thought of me as a poet—a dude who gazes at his navel, and then, for a…