I’ve been talking about TV characters and how you have to have a character relatable to the audience.  So how does that work in my own writing and am I practicing what I preach?  Well, I try to.

In Senta and the Steel Dragon, I’ve got literally dozens of characters and quite a few from whose eyes we see the world.

Senta, Saba, Terrence, Yuah, Radley Staff, Cissy, Zeah– we see the world and the other characters form their eyes.  They all tend to be pretty normal.  Terrence is maybe the least normal of the group.  Heroic and handsome, but a drug addict.  I needed to see the world through his eyes in order to show the world on the other side of the drug, but once I did that, he became much less central to the story.

On the other hand, some of the major characters in the story– notably Bessemer the Steel Dragon and the Sorceress Zurfina are so out there that it would be hard to identify with them as a reader… probably more so with Zurfina.  Bessemer is pretty normal, other than being a dragon.  But Zurfina is unique.