Hypothetical: Someone walks up to you on the street and says, “Character or plot driven?”
Let’s go ahead and assume they’re not wearing their favorite shade of inmate orange. Oh, and they don’t have on one of those snazzy jackets with the sleeves that latch together at the back. Aside from slowly backing away while using your peripheral vision to scan for cops, what do you do?
For my money, the only correct way to answer that question is “yes.”
Like most things in life, the discussion of plot versus character driven fiction is a slippery one. It’s not black and white, and anyone who says otherwise is either too inexperienced or too myopic to realize that all the fun debates are taking place in the gray areas.