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#WordWeavers How much power does your MC have?
The protagonists I write are not generally the ones with real power: they are often, however, adjacent to power. We see the characters with real power through the eyes of someone more relatable. This is probably my own hang-up about power. I've experienced how power corrupts and so I've sought to avoid having power — and have tried to use whatever power I have in life to empower others. I find people who exercise power inherently unrelatable.
The protagonists I write are not generally the ones with real power: they are often, however, adjacent to power. We see the characters with real power through the eyes of someone more relatable. This is probably my own hang-up about power. I've experienced how power corrupts and so I've sought to avoid having power — and have tried to use whatever power I have in life to empower others. I find people who exercise power inherently unrelatable.