A New Year brings thoughts of improvement, creating resolutions, determination to stick with them. What about your characters? What are their goals? Major? Minor? Make a note of them and check back in three months, six months, or just before your novel goes to the publisher. Did the goals change? How many were accomplished?
The clearer you, the writer, are about those goals, the more real the story will be for the reader.
Julaina Kleist-Corwin 