Digital_Fey
Troubadour
I'm currently wrestling with a story involving a character who is abducted and badly injured by a member of an underground clan of elves whose numbers are dropping rapidly. The character, a teenage girl, remains comatose throughout the story (which will probably be novella length), and events will focus on how her friends deal with losing her and how her presence influences the internal politics of the group that abducted her. (It's urban fantasy, btw, in a downtown setting).
The problem is that I'm not sure how to build the readers' sympathy and liking for this character, since she never gets the chance to speak or act. How do you avoid making the reader feel that all the angst surrounding this figure is much ado about nothing?
The problem is that I'm not sure how to build the readers' sympathy and liking for this character, since she never gets the chance to speak or act. How do you avoid making the reader feel that all the angst surrounding this figure is much ado about nothing?