On Quiet Protagonists: A Guest Post from Jack Cheng

Today’s guest post comes to us with a topic near and dear to my own heart. To know me now, you might not realize that I was a supremely quiet kid. Never raised my hand. Spoke next to never in school. But what kinds of kids did I prefer to read about in my books? Did I incline towards the quiet kids like myself or was I more attracted to the brassier, bolder heroes? I think it was a little bit of both, but I hadn’t seriously sat down and considered the question until I read this piece that author...