I can’t connect with your characters.”
I kept hearing the same feedback and was baffled. I was a character-driven writer. How could I mess up the one thing I was supposed to be good at? Like , I sank into the depths of despair. But then I went back to the page. I was stubborn and determined to convince my agent that these characters were real. after all, I they were real. My protagonist Lotus had lived inside me for years. I just needed to clarify her on the page. Then readers would understand, we’d sell this book, and Lotus would finally be out in the world.
