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I'm wondering what book characters have stuck with you after reading or writing a piece of fiction?

Who/What were they and why did you find them memorable?

This should be interesting!

My favorite character to read about is Kellan Kyle of S.C. Stephens' "Thoughtless" series. He's an awesome rock god with a heart full of love.
My favorite character to write about is Greg "Rod" Rodwell of my "Wild Sparks" series. He's witty, but mouthy, which gets him into trouble on several occasions. He's a lot of fun to write.

I'm a sucker for characters living in gray moral areas, and I always loved reading about Peter Wiggin from "The Ender's Game" sequels (The Shadow books).
My favorite character to write is Bullseye/Kynacoba from my "The Kota Series," for much the same reason. Plus she's my alter-ego, so it's fun to write a character who has all your personal quirks...and psychoses. :)

One of my favorites characters to read was Richard Mayhew from Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere. .

I've always been drawn to characters like Richard, probably because I associate so closely to the average guy who is thrown unwillingly into a really bad and/or weird situation. My life reads like his...including the occassional weird situation.

One of my fave characters was the one I wrote about in Immortal Island, Chase Gavinport. He made it through all 4 books in my series and landed the POV MC in book 4. If I get inspired again I may add a book 5 which may be in his POV again. This is book 4 but he is in all 4 books as MC's love interest.

My favorite character to read about is Raylan Givens. Elmore Leonard may him such a badass but also for the law and as you read Riding the Rap and Pronto you cant help but love the way he deals with people.

My favorite character to write about is Javier ''Bones'' Jones from my book, A Bloody Bloody Mess In The Wild Wild West. I made him a man without morales and no filter which always is fun to write about a guy who has no limits.

My favorite character to read about is up-from-the-ranks soldier Richard Sharpe from the historical fiction novels by Bernard Cornwell. Sharpe is often a morally ambiguous man, yet has a code of honor that makes him a loyal ally and friend to those he respects. It is interesting how he lives on the edge, striving to better his position in life any way he can, which includes easily reverting to the base aspects of his personality when circumstances require it.

My favorite character to write about is Sanyel, from my Sanyel book series. She embodies all the virtues I admire in a person, most of which I wish I had in greater abundance. Sanyel is a born leader who possesses intelligence, courage, compassion, a capacity for forgiveness, a strong sense of justice, a wry sense of humor, and a willingness to fight for what is right. She is not perfect. Sanyel struggles with self-doubt, can be willful, impulsive, cocky, and is at times short-tempered. More than any other character I’ve created, Sanyel is the one who best expresses my personal views. That she also kicks ass makes writing about her just plain fun.

It's pretty funny, but both of my favorite characters to write about were supporting characters in my last novel. I would think that the main characters would probably be my favorite to write about, but I guess that's not the case. One is an old, kind of crazy, man that goes by the name Izzy. His full name is Izzerius Bathoon. I'm planning on writing a short story as a back story for him and kind of a lead into my most recent novel. He comes off as just a crazy old man, but he's got an immense amount of power under that shell of crazy.

The other one is one of the main bad guys in my novel named Azrael. It was just fun to right his dialogue. It was very sarcastic I'm better than you and I know it type dialogue. I've also written several guest blogs from the POV of him that were VERY fun to write.

It's hard to choose a favorite; there are so many awesome ones out there. In terms of the one I've read the most books about, that would probably be Spenser for Hire as I've read every book in that long series. I love his focus on honor.

For writing, I enjoy all of my medieval characters, but those are one-book-only. I'm enjoying my murder mystery series that lets me follow the growth of the main character and her relationship with the hero. I'm looking forward to continuing that year after year.

Lisa

The character I most enjoyed writing about is Sarah Bressler,in my historical fiction novel, Silk Legacy. She is the wife of a domineering husband and although she takes verbal abuse from him it does not stop her from being an independant woman in the early 20th century.

Here is the book jacket so you can get a picture of Sarah.

In early twentieth century Paterson, New Jersey, dashing twenty-nine year old Abraham Bressler charms naïve nineteen year old Sarah Singer into marriage by making her believe he feels the same way she does about the new calling of a modern woman. He then turns around and gives her little more respect than he would a servant, demanding she stay home to care for “his� house and “his� children.

Feeling betrayed Sarah defies him and joins women's groups, actively participating in rallies for woman suffrage, child welfare and reproductive freedom. For a while she succeeds in treading delicately between the demands of her husband and her desire to be an independent woman. Her balancing act falters when a strike shuts down Paterson’s 300 silk mills. With many friends working in the mills, Sarah is forced to choose sides in the battle between her Capitalist husband and his Socialist brother, a union leader who happens to be her best friend’s husband.

Richard Brawer


P.S. If you are thinking of looking up this book on Amazon, it will be on a special price of.99 Oct. 6 to Oc. 12.

Possibly the demon, Irate, in my book Alpha Wolf: Demon's Prize. He is really really demented, mainly because I was trying to make -myself- nervous when re-reading what he does in the pages. You can actually see a picture I made of him at

Second may be one other book I didn't get published because I stopped midway. Such a pity, I know. That was a vampire who dealt with fighting his evil nature vs his love for this one woman. NOT a romance, i swear!

My favourite character to write about was Daisy Delaney in ''Utterly Sluttily'! Daisy has a mortifying experience getting jilted at the altar, only to have her ensuing profanity peppered breakdown filmed and posted on YouTube. She heads off to her honeymoon deciding she's no longer playing the good girl role and decides to do whatever she wants on her journey of recovery. The character is an interesting mix of coming to terms with her heartache and trying out new things. The biggest test was make her reactions to her past and the actions of her present credible, believable and funny! She's an every day girl in extraordinary circumstances and her creation was a great deal of fun!!

I think for me the most memorable characters I have read are the amazing little rabbits in Watership Down. When I finished reading it (the first time) it was like saying good-bye to my friends, Hazel, Fiver, Big Wig and others. And Watership Down also has one of my favorite villians--General Woundwort. Eek!

It's often categorized as a children's book, but it is equally of value to adults. I love it!

Leo Alejo from Sequence 77. Not only is his name fun to say, but he is a jokester who is always looking for the humor in every situation while doing his job with gusto.

I also enjoyed Artemis Fowl from the novel of the same name. Simply well written.

Leslie wrote: "I think for me the most memorable characters I have read are the amazing little rabbits in Watership Down. When I finished reading it (the first time) it was like saying good-bye to my friends, Ha..."

Leslie, I can't imagine Watership Down as a children's story - it's such a political allegory, and it's frightening! I loved Blackberry the best!

I have two favorite characters. First is Raistlin from Dragonlance and second is Vaelin Al Sorna from Blood song. The reason: inner turmoil carried out to perfection. Both struggle with who they are and must come to terms with it.
Raistlin is as good as he is evil. I've never wished for a character to see their flaws more than him. And I've never been as pleased with a character's ending as I was devastated. He was mysteriously complex.
Al Sorna's journey to accepting what he was was done brilliantly. I felt his pain and frustration with himself through the book. Just a great character with a truly touching story. Not to mention he was a badass.The SoulforgeBlood Song

L.K. -

I agree that reading about complex characters is just so satisfying :).

Lisa

I love snarky or quirky characters that are dynamic as you go through a series. I like women primarily but I do read books where men are the main character. I love reading paranormal or slightly supernatural romances or mysteries. I'm a fan of the detective stories where the plots are on the stranger side of fiction. The books have to be different, I hate when a writer gets stuck in a scenario or with a dilemma on the character's part and continues to write the exact same book over and over again. I like all the characters to have brains, it's okay if they aren't all super geniuses, but they have to at least be able to reason and think--even if they are the quirky sidekick.

It's awesome if every character has a reveal as you go on, a hippy turning out to be a former Green Beret, a preacher that turns out to be a former spy, an evil queen that used to be a Disney princess. No one just arrived at the plot with a blank slate, even an infant has a past. I have to at least respect the main character, I want to love them and regard them as a treasured friend, but I will settle for respect. If I don't like the main character why am I reading the book.
I have to believe the story. If you tell me that he's honorable and someone to be admired, you better back it up. If you tell me she's smart then bring it. You can't just tell me how to feel, you have to invoke these emotions. If you're solution to moving the plot along is for one of the main characters to be an irrational dumbass, and then never address how dumb they just were. And then go on to tell me that the reason the hero loves her is because she's the smartest woman he's ever met, then I'll throw up a little in my mouth.
I want an author to regard the story as something that really happened and that the characters are actually real people. I want personalities, hobbies, unique perspectives, flaws, virtues, and honest reactions. And the author should also have a good voice, an expansive vocabulary, unorthodox descriptions, UNIQUE plots.
For goodness sakes, don't write to a formula. Okay this is the first love scene it should be this way, the second should be this way, and the third should be this way. Okay they meet and don't like each other so they find a body then they fall in love. And along the way they mistakenly identify the culprit and then her life has to be in danger and he has to save her.

There are a million and one things you can do to turn your story from a typical novel to a compelling tale of murder and mystery or whatever you are trying to achieve. I read over 200 books a year and I'd like every book to I pick up to be awesome with someone I can laugh, cry, and fall in love with. But sadly too many people follow the formula, or even worse give me drivel.

Stephanie -

I run a quarterly literary magazine, Mused, and we find the same thing with poetry submissions. So many people submit the exact same poem. We get inundated with poems about "walls" and how they have to be surmounted. I think people don't realize they're cliche or, as you call it, "drivel". I think the reason we now feel these things are cliche and drivel is because they are such universally felt emotions. Which is fine, but after reading it 100 times it gets a bit old.

I think this is where reading a lot helps. You start to see what themes have been overused and seek for something different.

Lisa

Favorite characters to read:

Harry Potter: Sir Cadogan
Hunger Games: Hamich
Divergent: Four
DragonLance Series: Caramon Majere

My favorite character that I write is Ryan Hunter from
It is so much fun to be snarky and use him to pick on my other characters. The crowd favorite though from my series seems to be Jane Dotter. She is fun to write as well.

My favourite character is Feluda from "The adventures of Feluda". He is alert, intelligent and uses simple techniques to draw conclusions. Below is my review on the book:

I loved James Kennedy from Sex Lesson. He's funny, self-deprecating and irresistible with the charm.

I enjoy reading a book with such a well developed and strong character that after I read it the character stays with me for a while in my mind. They leave such an impression on me that I just think 'wow' I wish this character was real cause I would so be friends with them.