by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
I’ve spent so much time thinking up what the heroine of my novel looks like, that I’ve totally dropped the ball when it comes to my male romantic lead. I just can’t settle on what he looks like.
My natural inclination is to make him a “proxy me.” But, in general, inserting yourself into your novel is Not Cool. So, I find myself dwelling on how to describe him in a way that makes him seem real in people’s imaginations as well at Not Me.
I only even think this up because one of my Beta Readers noted that I had really fleshed out my heroine, leaving my male romantic lead wanting. So, in this third draft I’m working on, I’m going to really give his appearance some thought.
It’s a real struggle, though, because describing a male is just not all that interesting to me, which, of course, is what members of the “woke cancel culture mob” would say was a “tell.” They would say that I’m so obsessed with thinking up a heroine that I want to fuck that I don’t have time to worry about what her love interest looks like.
Ugh.
Anyway, things are otherwise going well with this novel. I am working my way through the new scenes I’ve come up with and will soon reach the point where Something Happens.
