rwallace comments on The danger of living a story - Singularity Tropes - Less Wrong

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Comment author: rwallace 15 November 2010 01:45:19PM 2 points [-]

That's basically the Reluctant Hero archetype. Of course, from the writer's viewpoint, the outstanding feature of that kind of hero is that you have to make sure his attempt to keep a non-story life fails or, well, you won't have a good story.