"Alfred Bertram Guthrie, Jr." was an American novelist, screenwriter, historian, and literature/literary historian who won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction during 1950 for his novel The Way West. The author called himself "Bud" because he felt that Alfred Bertram was "a sissy name."

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Fiction is love and hate and agreement and conflict and common adventure, not lonely musings on have-beens and might-have-beens.

If you are inclined to leave your character solitary for any considerable length of time, better question yourself. Fiction is association, not withdrawal.