WRITING TIPS: NEVER PICK ON MEDIOCRE MAIN CHARACTERS

A mediocre main character for your short story or novel is like a dim spotlight guiding a lost convoy through the jungle. Readers are never attracted to such fellows, making your writing hard to please even the most committed of readers.

Pick an exciting entity, a strong man or woman who will propel your story forward and tag the reader along. A main character or hero who will not disappoint the reader but will make him or her look at life in a brand new way. Your hero must inspire, he must teach your reader to appreciate life, he must help your reader grow and become a new person, and that is why he or she must never ever, be mediocre for mediocrity smells of nothing but failure.
If the main character is a failure, do not expect any of the other strengths in your story to show for short stories and novels are wound around one or two major characters!