The Importance of Choice

When I first began rewriting chunks of Pelegra and the Son of Merek, it was because I was reading a book called The Anatomy of Story by John Trudy.  The book mentioned the importance of the choices that your characters make.  I can’t stress that enough.  Think back over some of the books you have read.  Was the main character given a choice? Was the decision they had to make, obvious?  Where they choosing between one good thing and one bad thing?  Or was it a choice between two good things?  Those are the kind of choices that help shape your character and portray who they are.  When your character has two good options, which one he chooses truly demonstrates  merit of his/her character.

So now I have given my character Aiden a choice.  No, I’m not telling you what it is.  Just know that it’s a big choice.  A choice that could change the lives of many, no matter which way he chooses.