Category: character development

Since we’re discussing characters, another comes to mind who I also thought would also play a small role in my Steampunk/Fantasy novel, “Journey To The Black City”. But, like Dan Hendricks, it was not to be. I am speaking of a young woman from Lyria and Kel’s tribe by the…

Another character we meet in the first novel of my Steampunk/Fantasy series “After: Earth”, called “Journey Into The Black City”, is a child named Noria. Bandits kidnap Noria after killing her family and then selling her into slavery to the Cathedral. In the hands of the priests, she is forced…

My characters. My story. In a way, it feels like I’m a journalist—I feel like I’m describing something that’s already actually happened. And that can be of help sometimes, when something bad is coming for one of my characters I rather like. I just tell myself that it’s already happened,…

When it comes to my characters, I can’t really say I have one ‘source of inspiration.’ because that isn’t true. Most of my characters are an amalgam of many people I’ve known through the years. The black priests of the Cathedral religion are, in away, one of those amalgams. I…