So, I went to my current WIP and asked, what myths would apply here? How can I weave those stories into my story?Ī clear myth appeared through Dante’s Purgatorio. I’ve often built my stories on the kernel of other stories and The Bone Houses was a powerful reminder of what great myths can add to a story. I really liked this approach because you can also use the myths as incomplete sources of truth or totally misleading truths. These are told as if Rin heard them as a child. In the book, myths and folktales are told to build backstory for world building.
This is something that I feel resonates with the types of stories I’m writing. I really liked how Lloyd-Jones weaved telling myths/local legends into the story. What is “good communication” for this character? Related, are they able to be a good communicator at this point in the story? Who is important to this character at this moment and why? Here are some questions I’m starting with: I’m going to review some of my other stories to see how I can use this technique to strengthen my characters. With this in mind, I reworked some of the dialog to reflect who she values more: her boss or her boyfriend. She interacts with her boss and clients in a totally different way than everyone else in her life (who are just distractions from work). 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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