Change, though I mostly hate it, is good.
Especially if we change who we are into someone better. You just quit smoking? Excellent change! You’ve read a self-help book and now love who you are, even a little bit more than yesterday? Keep going, you’re on the right track! You’re picking up your wet towels so the roaches can’t rest under them? Woot woot! BIG change!
Change is good in our books, too.
I once read a novel that was supposed to be The Next Big Thing. The main character wanted something, and she went out and got it.
The problem was what she wanted. It wasn’t something we shoot for if we want to be happy people. And that’s okay. All characters don’t have to be like me. But this girl, she never really changed going after her weird goal or when she got what she wanted. She was static. Stagnate. Boring.
BORING!
The book flopped because there was no character growth. No moral struggle. No putting herself at risk and overcoming because of her choices.
#46
How does your character change?
Why?
Is this significant? Is it enough?
Did you character get there in a way where she was stretching and growing and becoming new somehow?
Was she at odds with herself, morally, to make these changes?
Throwing Up Words 