Are my characters shallow?
Yep, well, …um…I just guess they are. The big secret? I wrote them like that!!!
Case study: The Shelf……
This
novel is NOT supposed to be a deep, heavy midnight read. No, not at all. In fact, the Dead-End Ave series is bringing
back the fun, light-hearted ‘teen-chiller’ reads. Remember those??
Perfect for the summer, read it in a couple
of days, and spend weeks after shaking your head at the shallow/ quirkiness of
the characters. I know all about these
types of novels, having spent my pre-teen and teen years tearing into
them. Some of my personal favorites,
from back-in-the day:
Weekend by Christopher Pike
April’s Fools Day by Richie Tankersley Cusick
Party Summer by R.L. Stine
The Perfume by Carolyn Cooney
Remember these???
Maybe in the future, readers might remember The Shelf and
the Dead-End Ave series “fondly” like this too: ‘Man, were those characters
shallow, selfish, silly…and ALL other things that make books fun and
light-hearted.’
….***Kish
I love quirky, shallow, selfish characters. Afterall, they are more real sometimes than the nice, all things good, gifted characters in most books! Plus, they make me feel so much better about myself!
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