Dynamic situation

All anybody really wants, all anybody really longs for, is a static life. Writers know this. A story begins when you put someone in a dynamic situation. The person in question works to resolve it. When they succeed, when staticness is achieved, well, at that point, the story is over.

Of course, some static situation are more so than others. When your financial policy is borrow money to pay for anything you need, well, one day the credit runs out. That happened to me a few weeks back. Living off credit may sound dynamic to others, but when it's happening to you, it sure feels static. It's like being at a party and pouring drink after drink, logically, before the night began, you would have known that that kind of situation can't continue forever. You'll either throw up or pass out. But once you're in the drink, you just keep pouring and pouring, because you know that as long as you keep drinking, the good times will keep on coming. The party can't end once you've started drinking.

Well I've thrown up. I've passed out. And there's no more credit. Just a bunch of letters with words like owe. And collection agency.

This is what a writer would call a dynamic situation.