So your protagonist has no redeeming qualities? It’s a question I asked myself today as I delved ever further into the psyche of my book’s main character. It’s a tough question to consider.  On one hand you’d like to toss him a bone and have him do something decent at least once in the book, but on the other you have to consider if it is true to the character. Redemption for this character is generated within himself, in his belief that what he does is so completely right. He doesn’t need the world’s approval and doesn’t seek it. As a matter of fact, the character’s loathing of the world is what drives him to act in the ways that he does.
So, here I sit… contemplating. I wonder if all of it is a little too much for a garden variety reader. I wonder if they will find after investing the time to read several hundred pages, a hollowness in the work. For me, a character study into what it is that makes this guy tick would be fun… but for others? I don’t know, and I suppose I can’t really spend a lot of time worrying about it.  Instead I guess I’ll put it all into his hands.  I’ll consider what it is that he would do in whatever circumstance he finds himself and stay true to that, at the very least it’s HONEST. There may be no happy ending, no redemption whatsoever… and is that such a terrible thing after all?  I’m going to go with NO and keep blissfully typing along!
