I am clearer in my mind and a bit less confused than I used to be.
I don't think anything needs to happen in a book.
A person always has a chance to protest this or that.
Much of my work has been done in first person.
I believe my friends think I'm funny. All the books are full of humor. Maybe it is a quiet sort of humor that masquerades as not-much-at-all. It is certainly easy to miss.
Not that believing such things has anything to do with whether they are true. You see that, don't you?