Can Passive Goals Ever Be Good for Our Story?

Here's the latest from Jami Gold, Paranormal Author :

Last time, I shared my Resident Writing Coach guest post over at Writers Helping Writers and talked about how weak or passive goals in our story can hurt us. The comments over at WHW brought up some great issues and questions that I want to dig into more here.

As we’ve been discussing in the comments of my guest post, our characters often start with passive internal goals. They don’t want to change—and they often don’t think they need to c...