Chapter 16: Diving In

At the end of the day, every compelling story is a yes story or a no story. For a time, you can get away with a maybe story, or a wait and see story, but not for long. Life doesn’t stand for it. The half-hearted will always get passed by in favor of the yes-er and the no-er. As a story author, you get to choose to create a protagonist - which is to say the central character of the story living out their yes or no truth - or a victim… someone lost to the story unfolding. Fate, if you will. What you can’t create is a couch-sitter who keeps couch sitting. There’s no story in that story...