Comments on: Get to work! http://www.dystel.com/blog/2010/11/get-to-work/ Mon, 26 Jun 2017 15:15:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.15 By: Kristi Helvig http://www.dystel.com/blog/2010/11/get-to-work/comment-page-1/#comment-19871 Tue, 30 Nov 2010 21:43:16 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2010/11/get-to-work/#comment-19871 Unless it's central to the plot, I don't focus much on the employment status of the MC. I finished The Gargoyle this weekend (amazing book) and the MC didn't work–although he had been a porn star in the past, which was an interesting twist.

The MC of my new ms is unemployed, but it's YA and there's no one left to hire her. :)

]]> By: Eric Christopherson http://www.dystel.com/blog/2010/11/get-to-work/comment-page-1/#comment-19870 Tue, 30 Nov 2010 21:39:41 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2010/11/get-to-work/#comment-19870 In George Orwell's famous essay on Charles Dickens one of his big criticisms was that Dickens' main characters are rarely shown at work, and that work is never central to their lives.

I can think of a few minor characters, e.g., Fagin and Dodger, as exceptions. :)

]]> By: Amy Tripp http://www.dystel.com/blog/2010/11/get-to-work/comment-page-1/#comment-19868 Tue, 30 Nov 2010 20:45:49 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2010/11/get-to-work/#comment-19868 Great point!
Thanks!

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