Stories aren’t primarily about the facts; they’re about the feelings—not just your characters’ emotions, but all of their inner life: what they make of what’s happening over the course of the story and how it affects them, makes them react, and influences their subsequent actions, behavior, and attitudes. That’s how you move the story forward, and how you develop the character arcs and show them moving along it—and much of hinges on what other characters do and say and how that ...
