Monday, October 13  Twelve Dancing Princesses and a Steamroller
As time winds down, we are left with one last perspective to
examine for our besieged father and his stubborn girls: the
successful candidate.  Even though this story is a fairy tale
about girls who dress up and go dancing every night, the
soldier-of-fortune's perspective is the easiest and most
familiar choice for a single point-of-view. Of all the people in
this story, he is the only dynamic character. (Read here for
more on static and dynamic characters.) Nobody else changes. And
even the soldier-of-fortune's “change” can be debated.  He is,
unarguably, the most interesting of all the characters in the
story. Everyone else is stuck in a rut, only digging themselves
in deeper with every revolution of the broken record of their
lives. The king's tied hands. The eldest princess's schemes. The
youngest princess's fears. The soldier-of-fortune at least
shakes things up.  As writers, these are the characters we
prefer to write about. J. Alfred Pruf