S11 E02 Hey Plot-Haters! This Just In: People Only Change

I used to hold two competing ideas in my head. I believed "people don't change"—I sort of prided myself on this vaguely cynical outlook. But then I'd teach the definition of story, which is that a story is about someone changing.

So I harbored this two-clause belief: people mostly don't change, but stories are about when they do.But in practice, it meany that making a character change on the page was always uphill. It felt like dragging a kid who refuses to walk. If you believe people don't change, but your job as a writer is to make them, there's always inertia.

Then I had an epiphany on the train, which is what brought about this episode.

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