I think there's a heavy reliance on being the only one who can whatever whatever in a lot of types of story. One of my crits for my most recent book saw it as a flaw that the heroine stepped up to do the thing because she wasn't the only one who could have done those things, she wasn't "the chosen one."
Well...no. She wasn't. She was the choosing one. She chose to act when many other people didn't. And I think that makes a much larger difference in life than being the Only One Who Can Do Anything Remotely Like What's Needed.
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Date: 2017-02-07 01:16 pm (UTC)Well...no. She wasn't. She was the choosing one. She chose to act when many other people didn't. And I think that makes a much larger difference in life than being the Only One Who Can Do Anything Remotely Like What's Needed.