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Poll #8521 writing a novel-on-the-fly is like wondering a maze, and I've come upon another dead end

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I've chosen my main character at random, from a snippet of a scene I wrote last year. It turns out she's a teen at an aloof and detached stage in life and has no emotional incentive to go boldly forth into anything. Should I:

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Rewrite her, at a younger, more enthusiastic age?
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Make her an audience for a completely different story, rather than a character in this one (just have another character tell a different story while she's sitting there and listening)?
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Scrap her entirely, and hand the Point-of-View role over to some other character, who is currently 'on the sidelines'?
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Keep her, but make her a secondary, rather than main, character?
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Or should I keep her as-is, but change the world she's in, by:

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Giving her a best friend that's her own age?
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Changing her starting family (currently, she's an only child of a single mother -- maybe she should have siblings by the handful, or two parents, or...)?
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Giving her family wealth and privilege it doesn't currently have, for her to rebel against?
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Changing the way she moves from her current family position to being fostered by the wizardy-mentor who acts as a catalyst for the plot?
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A third question (and a third Question type) for good luck -- freestyle: give me phrase, sentence, or idea -- anything that pops into your head:

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