A weak counter-narrative might make a book boring, but a weak narrative makes it unsalable.

Doing more thinking about narratives and counter-narratives. This is especially coming up in the context of revisions for my middle grade novel, Everyone Hates You. Novels about bullying are a bit trite because we get it: bullying is bad. You don't need to read an entire novel to know that.

The narrative here is that people are bullying you because they'…