First of all, let me say to you that if you're confused, go read the stuff over here first. That'll help you understand because this is a continuation of that. It should help you understand what's going on unless you're (a) familiar with my characters and (b) with my style of writing.
That being said... I was trying to make a list of all the characters I have written in the past five years with any sort of consistency and I found I couldn't do that. It's just too hard. The reason? I have way too many. I love my characters! They're awesome and I enjoy making up more characters. Yeah, someone tell me how that works...
But I don't just randomly kill my characters off, unlike other authors do. In fact, I think I've only killed off a small handful of my characters within the storyline... Shaun Ackerman and there were a few character deaths in a fantasy cross-over piece I wrote back in high school and Kiyoshi Sato. My characters have an excellent survival rate. And, as Sharpe himself pointed out, Ackerman died for a cause. It's not pointless.
I want to know more about my characters, especially the members of the Feconi Order, like Ellie... and Calanon. Calanon's kind of realy important. Ellie's just... interesting... because she's human. And she's the only human on the Feconi Order and she doesn't have anything particularly special or unique about her, other than the fact that she can put up with Bernard (putting up with Sharpe would be a greater feat).
And a quote... "If you end up living a lie long enough, it starts becoming the truth..." -Me on Sharpe's life
That being said... I was trying to make a list of all the characters I have written in the past five years with any sort of consistency and I found I couldn't do that. It's just too hard. The reason? I have way too many. I love my characters! They're awesome and I enjoy making up more characters. Yeah, someone tell me how that works...
But I don't just randomly kill my characters off, unlike other authors do. In fact, I think I've only killed off a small handful of my characters within the storyline... Shaun Ackerman and there were a few character deaths in a fantasy cross-over piece I wrote back in high school and Kiyoshi Sato. My characters have an excellent survival rate. And, as Sharpe himself pointed out, Ackerman died for a cause. It's not pointless.
I want to know more about my characters, especially the members of the Feconi Order, like Ellie... and Calanon. Calanon's kind of realy important. Ellie's just... interesting... because she's human. And she's the only human on the Feconi Order and she doesn't have anything particularly special or unique about her, other than the fact that she can put up with Bernard (putting up with Sharpe would be a greater feat).
And a quote... "If you end up living a lie long enough, it starts becoming the truth..." -Me on Sharpe's life
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Good post! you know I will be able to read AND comment now ;)
I know! I deliberately made it so that anyone was able to comment with my moderation on the comments. ^_^
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