One character, Katy, is all business and focused on her career. Sure enough, there were clear uses for two of my narrators to show their character more clearly by how they interacted with others. I examined my current WIP (City of Duhr) to see how I could apply this idea to my characters. I’ve met many people who claim to “be themselves no matter who is around” but that’s crap. The language we use, the expressions we show, our behaviors are all based in the context of the people around us. This made me examine some of my recent writing projects to see if characters provide different faces to different people, like real people do. (Side note: I really enjoyed the goat character but don’t want to spoil anything so I won’t say more) So, what? The relationship the goat had with Rin’s sister was different than Rin and different than the Bone Houses. Again, the goat was different based on who it was interacting with. Her interactions with other characters really showed the many faces of Rin which I really liked.Įven the Goat was an interesting character that gets you cheering for it by the end. Llyod-Jones did a good job building Rin into a character who was multilayered and while she had a singular focus in her quest, she was conflicted at times with what she was doing. I enjoyed Rin as a very strong female lead who was on her own quest and was not easily distracted from it. The Bone Houses did an excellent job building characters you care about.
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