Category: Character Spotlights
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Character Spotlight: Neslan the Scholar and True Friend
Neslan Dormenor is the Crimson League’s scholar. If I’m honest, he’s probably the character who most resembles me in temperament and interests. He’s twenty-five or so and loves history, literature, poetry, and myth. He’s extremely book smart, and I’d think he has a rich interior life. I feel really bad for him, because he finds…
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Character Spotlight: Bennie the Faithful
I had originally thought to end the character spotlights with launch day on 6/15, but I realized that I hadn’t had an opportunity to spotlight one of my most “favoritest” of characters in my entire trilogy: Bendelof (BEN-deh-loff) Esper, or Bennie. Bennie is a farm girl from the region of Granharson, though the name of…
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Character Spotlight: Kora the Resilient
Launch day is in 2 days, so today I’m spotlighting protagonist Kora Porteg! I could easily have titled this post “Kora the Courageous,” and it would have fit. The alliteration would have been nice, too. Kora’s seventeen when The Crimson League: The Fight for Hope starts. She’s a peasant girl doing her best to help…
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What the pícaro?
(Hopefully this title grabbed your attention!) What is a pícaro, and what does it have to do with a blog dedicated to creative writing? I’m here to tell you! Picaresque literature, it turns out, was an important inspiration in The Crimson League: The Fight for Hope, releasing June 15! THE TRADITIONAL SPANISH PICARO I very…
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Character Spotlight: Zalski Forzythe, because everyone loves a good villain
Zalski Forzythe (ZAL-ski FOR-zithe, last syllable like scythe) is definitely my favorite villain–and one of my favorite characters overall–in my entire series. He’s one of those characters who absorbs all the focus in every scene he’s in. Every editing pass I made through The Crimson League: The Fight for Hope, I could feel the anticipation…
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Character Spotlight: Laskenay, Lady of Sorrows
As a woman fighting in a civil war, Laskenay doesn’t try to be a man. She’s wise enough to know she’s not a traditional soldier, and any chance she has to succeed or survive lies in adopting other tactics.
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The Crimson League shows everyone has something to contribute
Each leaguesman IS needed. Each one is beautifully necessary as the story of the League unfolds–the quiet ones and the brash ones, the thinkers and those who rush to act, the sensitive ones and the hardened ones. So it is in real life. Each one of us is unique and irreplaceable. We fight different flaws…
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Character Spotlight: Sedder the Chivalrous
Each Tuesday before the June 15 release of “The Crimson League: The Fight for Hope” I will spotlight a character from the novel here on the blog. Last week was Lanokas, a nobleman in the League, whom I mentioned was one of two men in the story who is especially chivalrous. Sedder Foden is the…
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Character Spotlight: Lanokas the Lighthearted
As the June 15 launch of The Crimson League: The Fight for Hope approaches, I thought I’d spotlight a character each week. It didn’t take me long to decide to start with Lanokas (LAN-oh-kass), the Crimson League’s swordsman. I realized relatively recently that, apart from one couple who steals the show in book two of…
Creative Writing with the Crimson League 