Oh yeah, we are makin’ an alien. Here is where I let off…

I love the way a little bit of shading makes something start to pop and lift out into the real world.

Fawnya is just a bit player in the third part of the novel. I think she is in the story for only four of five pages. Arthur, our hero, meets her when he is going on a walkabout of the Hub… the big alien space station… The stress of being an intergalactic hero is getting to him, and he just sort of takes off in the middle of all the excitement. That is just the sort of anti-hero he is.

He meets lots of strange aliens on his little side-adventure. A member of a dying race that only speaks English by using lines from Monty Python skits. Some cute, colorful bear-like creatures with a dark secret, an abominable snow creature, and a mad alien scientist and his daughter who look a little like lava lamps. There are many more, and he meets all of them while being hunted by alien and human assassins.

Why am I giving so much away of a story I hope to sell to all of you? Because this is just a tiny part of that one part of the whole story. Think of it as a teaser, if you will.

But back to our friend Fawnya. Here she is after a little more work…

Now she is starting to look like someone you could have a conversation with… like I did in my head when I was creating her. All my characters from all the parts of the story have real identities, real lives, real stories. I don’t just make them up, plop them down and leave them on their own. I get to know them. So you will have fun getting to know them.

That is how fiction writing should work.