Do I have to…

I’ve seen quite a few new writers come near to wrecking their work by trying to follow well-intentioned advice about what must go in a story. Oddly enough, the two most common pieces of story-wrecking advice are diametrically opposed.

The first is: “Your main character must change and grow in the course of the story, due to the events of the story, or your readers won’t care about him/her.”

Nope.

James Bond doesn’t change and grow over the course of the series, let alone any one book. Neither...