Let's just say I have a group of three main characters who move the story along in my book, and for the longest time, I was fighting against myself on who was the number one main character. The girl? The guy? That other side-kick, comedy guy?
Honestly I had no idea.
But luckily for me, I'm writing a third-person POV in the past tense. I have total, absolute freedom to write from any viewpoint I want. Since I've never written anything before, I guess it's understandable that I didn't even know I could do that for the longest time. I was so caught up on all the "beginner" writing advice that I read on the internet: that you should try to write from one character's point of view in your first story. It's easy to get into and could practice learning how to write.
Pshhh. Of course when I ignored that and just wrote a scene from whichever character I wanted, the story flowed much better and my characters could talk together in new ways.
I'm babbling.
The point of all this is to introduce my three main characters to you! In my novel called "Recreated" (check this last blog post if you want to read the summary), my characters start on a journey to discover a friend's lost family. That's how they get themselves trapped in a new world.
Here they are:
Here they are:
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| Jason Mostly main character. At least he was for about 6 years :P |
Shirina Our beautiful female lead |
Isaac Loyal friend and has a hard crush <-- on our lovely lady here |
Like the picture says, Jason was the main character I've always had in my head since this story began way back when. Basically he's a mechanic for futuristic machines and he has a knack for just being plain curious. He goes out to inspect the ruins of the last civilization, which suddenly disappeared without a trace. No one in the present age knows what happened to their ancestors or why they were left behind...
Shirina
The story actually starts off when Jason decides to help her find her birth parents. She was found alone in the woods as a child. Completely alone. She can't remember how she got there and to this day, wants more than anything to know where she came from and who her parents really are.
Isaac
Best friend of Jason, and has a huge crush on Shiri. The three of them hang out a lot and have a lot of fun. Isaac is the oldest and has a sense of loyalty to protect his friends. He considers himself "the strong guy" and wants people to depend on him...where really he's just afraid of being alone.
Technical art rights shennanigins
Aren't they just lovely?
But for technical purposes I gotta say this: Jason was a character design I paid for and is copyrighted to my company Arc Interactive. If you use him, I'll hunt you down :/
The other two images of Shirina and Isaac I found on deviantart and claim no rights to them - however I didn't save the links, so I can't link you to the artist pages. Sorree.
I hope you like this rambling of my characters and the next blog post will describe more of the world they come from - a neo-futuristic version of our Earth about 200 years from now. Oooo, mysterious!
Happy Friday and write-on!



I love hearing about your characters! Looks like a really interesting cast, and I love the art you've had done on Jason! Nothing quite like seeing your characters brought to life!
ReplyDeleteThanks! I believe that finding artwork to support my writing brings my imagination to life. If I can see what my characters look like, then it's easier to imagine how they act, what their hand motions might be, and how they can interact with other people. A picture says a thousand words...I only have to pick a few to write about :)
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