Category: character development

I believe I’ve mentioned several times that the reason Kel couldn’t finish his training to become a full tribal shaman—or marry the love of his life, the warrior woman Lyria was because his grandfather, who was his spiritual teacher, had been kidnapped and taken by a marauding zeppelin to the…

And the Magician himself is just that—an accomplished stage magician with an interesting twist. He mesmerizes his patrons. That would be the drunken men hanging out in the Green Hyena, and can somehow make them see whatever he wants them to see. He literally shows them their mythical account of…

We first meet this mysterious character in the first book of my six-part series: “Journey To The Black City”. He’s another one of those characters I had to get to know as the story progressed. In the beginning, I wasn’t at all sure if he would be a continuing character,…

Since adulthood comes soon in this kind of society; he has a chance encounter with a man known only as ‘the magician.’ I’ll say more about him later. This is one of those encounters that some call fate, and that the more cynical among us call ‘mere coincidence.’ In any…

A short time ago, I mentioned one of my characters in my six novel Steampunk/Fantasy series beginning with “Journey To The Black City”. The character in question is Dan Hendricks. If you recall, he’s a character who just sort of dropped in to say, “Hi” and then moved in—top hat,…

Let’s delve a bit further into finding and creating characters for your writing. For instance, say you need an auto mechanic in your story. Remember the mechanics you’ve known, both professional and the back-yard type. How did they dress? How did they walk and talk — what mannerisms can you…

When I talk to people who’ve read at least the first book in my steampunk/fantasy series After Earth: Journey To The Black City, I sometimes hear, “Where on earth do you ‘dream up’ your characters?” The answer can be quite obvious — we’ve all spent our lives meeting characters! Think…

In my steampunk/fantasy book series, beginning with After Earth: Journey To The Black City, I wanted to develop believable protagonists and antagonists. Too many times, the latter are more or less overlooked in stories and in films. Ask yourself, how many films have I seen where the ‘bad guys’ are…

Beyond the characters, and the mechanical devices I dreamed up for my Steampunk/Fantasy novels, there is something else. There are ancient swords that seem to carry a spiritual force within them—magic swords, if you will. As the story progresses further through “Journey To The Black City” into my new “After…

Adria. We’ve been discussing this woman. Disorganized serial killer—what my characters in my Steampunk/Fantasy novel “Journey To The Black City” from my new “After: Earth” series call a ‘repeat killer’, leaves her tribe, after committing several murders. She stows away aboard a zeppelin run by the Cathedral. In the Black…