by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
I don’t know what my problem is when it comes to the passive nature of my novel’s hero. But Claude Opus 4.6 told me yet AGAIN that my hero was “too passive.”
This is very annoying.
It makes me want to start a new novel from the ground up where I really torque things when it comes to my hero being as proactive as possible.
And, yet.
I just have too much invested in this novel. And it is pretty good. In fact, I think it’s definitely good enough to query. So, what I guess I’m going to do is finish this draft of the novel and THEN really figure out ways to make my hero more proactive, even if it means more work.
I have a backup novel idea, but that is more for what I’m going to be working on when I start to query this novel I’m currently working on. I have to keep going. I can’t keep screwing around.
