As Meg Ryan’s character, Kathleen Kelly, in the 1998 movie,
“You’ve Got Mail” says at the closing of her bookshop, “People are always
telling you that change is a good thing. But all
they're really saying is that something you didn't want to happen at all... has happened.” Well, not
to agree with a fictional character or anything, but change is an everyday
occurrence in everyone’s life, including the characters we write about. Change
is what drives the plot of any book.
Change is life.
We were all once babies. Babies are born; they grow; they go to school; they go
to college; they move into their own life, and the change repeats. Change
drives our own lives on a daily basis whether we recognize it or not. Why
wouldn’t it drive the characters we create? As Heraclitus said, “There is
nothing permanent except change.”
