This is going much too slow. I'm getting bogged down in character research. My problem is that I want all my characters to be "stand alone" people. I want my readers, (please God, let there be readers), to have a vested interest in each one of them.
I have a character who is a reformed "Type A" guy. He has a heart attack and becomes aware of life in a way that he never noticed before He studies Eastern Religions and adopts a Taoist type philosophy of life. What do you know? More research. By the way, the Te of Piglet is very good and an excellent source of Tao. I'm becoming smarter by the day and my book is falling further and further behind. At this rate, my great grandchildren will have to finish it for me. I have no intention of writing the great American novel, far from it, I just want my characters to be interesting.
The answer may lie in me creating characters who have traits and idiosyncrasies that I know more about.
How about one who is a novelist that writes at glacial speeds?
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