Meet Captain Happen—troublemaker, narrative enabler, change agent. The novelist, essayist, and poet, Charles Baxter talks about Captain Happen as one of several ways to increase urgency and momentum in fiction. Male or female, this kind of character shakes things up. They act impulsively and say out loud what everyone else is thinking. In short, they make things happen. Think Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games, when she shoots an arrow straight through the group of bored Ga