"Aren't people too tired of reality? Don't people read to escape it? If I write something realistic, something that resembles me, I might end up creating a weak, indecisive protagonist."
"So you want to write the opposite of who you are—brave, decisive, hopeful, empowered?"
"Exactly. But how will I write about her? I don't even know her. I've only read her in books, seen her in movies. But I was never her. I've never felt what it is to be her."
"There is a way to combine who you are now and what you want to be, the reality and the ideal."
"Tell me."
"Character development."