Character Ideas For Your Writing…
Stuck with your mystery writing? Do what I do and create new characters from the seemingly “normal” people who you know and love. Or just know. I personally will never love my neighbours but that’s another story…
1) Mrs Millen’s: in real life, Mrs Millen’s is a short, kind, spectacle-wearing old lady. Yet in my mind and on the page, Mrs Millen’s becomes a super sleuth! By using her special wiggly ears – and extra-large ear-lobes – she can hear clues from miles around, making her the ideal detective to solve any dastardly crime!
2) Mr Gum: Mr Gum is actually Mr Hanson, but we’ve always called him that – me and my mate Doug Hyde , that is – because he is…hm, always chewing gum? He also has a voice which always sounds like he is chewing something. He would be Mrs Millen’s dependable sidekick, and the one who is always watching Mrs Millen’s and thinking “gosh, she is quite fine!”
3) Roger the postman: now, Roger may seem to be just an average postman who always says hello, but what is that in his bag? Is it a knife? Probably not, it’s just letters, but for the purpose of tension, in my novels he becomes a murderous postman serial-killer who is impossible to pin-down!
If you’re stuck, just look around you and plenty of character ideas will soon be revealed. Just don’t go showing any of them what you’ve written, or someone like Roger might get really angry and turn into his alter ego, noooooooooo!
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