Character Development

Mar 30

Today is Sunday and I'm sure other authors have rituals, boundaries, or idiosyncrasies that they have with their art.

Mine is I don't write on Sundays.

However, what I do do (do do?)...is other things that are writing related. Things like responding to emails, tweets, Facebook page management, and tweaking synopsis of pending drafts.

Today I'm working on the Character development of the book to the left. Believe it or not, in my prior publications I did not constructively do a character development outline. I basically did it in my head and for some reason it worked out well.

However, that tactic isn't going to work for some reason with "Hands of Fire". I don't know why, but I know that I have to individually draft each character for this book in debt. I think the reason why in Frankenstina I didn't have to do much development is because the characters didn't live long lol. Now it is intrinsic that the reader have a clear understanding of who the key characters are and why they think and behave the way they do.

This way I can do minimum backstory once the first draft is done.

I know, I know...but it makes sense to me.

Let's judge the final project and not the process.

Jerrimiah Stonecastle

Stonecastle Publications LLC

"Throwing Stones at a Glass House"

Jerrimiah Stonecastle

Born and raised in the slums of New York, he was raised by a single mom who earned her Master's in Early Childhood Development while working as a teacher's aide. She sent young Jerrimiah to the prestigious Power Memorial Academy for Boys, the Alma mater of NBA great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. He worked part-time after school to help his mom pay for his tuition.

He declined a full scholarship from Concordia University and joined the US Army and became a combat medic. He returned to New York upon his discharge where he was hired by the NYC Chief Medical Examiner’s Office as a medical stenographer.

In 1982 he joined the New York City Police Department. In 1983 he was recruited by the Organized Crime Control Bureau (OCCB) as an undercover officer in their narcotics division. He finished out his career as a detective assigned to the Bronx Homicide Task Force.

When he retired in 2002, he relocated to Florida to pursue his passion for writing. After hundreds of rejection letters and reading Amanda Hocking's story, he decided to self-publish his own works. In 2016 he formed Stonecastle Publications LLC and has published 30 books so far. He has an additional 400 fiction and nonfiction novels in draft form in his company's literary vault.

On October 31, 2018, He launched his first horror novel "FRANKENSTINA" and released the sequel "FRANKENSTINA REBORN" on Halloween 2019. There are two more books in the horology.

On March 7, 2023, he received the Literary Titan Book Award for the apocalyptic thriller "A Flash of Light".

Stonecastle Publications LLC

"Throwing Stones At a Glass House"

https://jerrimiahstonecastle.org/

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