Thank you to John W. Howell for writing an insightful post!

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Last week Charles asked me a question, and I took some time to think it over. His question was a request. Here is the quote, “tips to making a thriller hero who isn’t a well-trained badass.” He was also nice enough to say he liked the fact that John J. Cannon the protagonist in my book My GRL (got the book promotion out of the way early) was a normal guy who gave the reader the feeling he wouldn’t go all Schwarzenegger on people.
The way I developed the average guy character was to:

First of all the writer must imagine what it would be like to be an ordinary person faced with extraordinary circumstances. We all know the Hollywood version of a hero. They are the ultimate fighting machine. They can be shot, knifed…