Because I felt that character so close to me when I’d leave the church. And I also have to be very careful because the stronger, negative characters tend to want more space and take over. But I try not to judge them in my writing.
And for the antagonist in my book, that moment came and the choice was made and that choice was to cause harm. I do believe, however, that in each person’s life there’s a moment of making a choice, even if you come from horrific abuse. I see all the different ingredients that go into making that fallen “cake.” I do have empathy, and I do feel what they feel. I’m even attached to the antagonists – they walk with me when I’m working on a book and that can sometimes be difficult.ĭo you like your antagonistic characters? Do you develop some kind of empathy?
The villains, antagonists, they all have an equal spot at that table without any judging of what they say. I still have two more books to spend with these characters, and I’m so grateful for that.Īnd I also have a real belief that there’s a round table, and everyone there gets to pull up a seat and have an equal voice. I rewrite and rewrite, and that’s why, I’m sure, it took so long for me to give my book to an agent. I fall in love with my characters, and so it’s very difficult for me to let them go. Great fiction writers conceal the ‘lesson’ or the ‘moral’ or the ‘purpose’ inside the events of the story, so that it naturally occurs to the reader – the sense of a justice/injustice, the outrage. They’re just standing there and suddenly you feel the blow. Real fighters don’t show you what they’re doing. There’s the huge windup, the close-up, the spectacular kick. “The difference between real fighting and stunt choreography. “It’s a delicate thing,” says Fitch, of activism in novels. I think it would be good to have more of an awareness.”
“What I am writing about are things that are happening in this world,” says Bond, “and about finding a path to some kind of freedom. Far from it,” says Danticat.īond’s advocacy for victims of human trafficking, especially with forced prostitution, is central to the book. “But there are novels that show us realities so stark in such a compelling way that they inspire us to act. Danticat says nonfiction can serve activism well.
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