Saying goodbye to old characters?

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I’ve said a few times now. The Little Fears were never meant to be an actual income stream. It started as a daft side project to combine the silly doodles and silly stories from the Blue Moon series. Six months later and they were beginning to earn their keep.A year later and I am seriously questioning if they should be my sole focus for my income. When I quit my terrible job last year, I never thought a portion of my income would be coming from scribbled monsters and awful puns.

The next 270 tales I post here, cover the following three books. Grey Moon, the current stories in which Reala finds herself the landlady of a pub. Starring Yuffie, Fuen and Lucy. Brass City, focussing entirely on two new characters on a road trip through a post-apocalyptic landscape. Then DCI Lily, centred on another two new characters chasing a serial killer. All three of these books share one thing in common. They feature barely any of the characters I’ve been writing about for the last year.

I am a sentimental, soppy twit for sure. I’m not ready to drop Hydra, Red, Spectre, Sprite, Serpent, Clouds, Spiders or any of the other regular characters of the Little Fears into the abyss of forgotten tales. They have given me an alternative to returning to a 9 to 5 (or in my case, 6 am – 8 pm and beyond). They have introduced me to some fab new friends on the internet. They’ve spread a lot of cheer and given a lotta people a smile on their morning commutes.

So now I don’t have to worry about characters and stories colliding from old books, I shall be posting the last of the January tales and the Spiders stories with new videos. Every Tuesday and Thursday evening will see a retro Little Fears. The ones that never had a video the first time around.

This blog post reads a bit like a teens Tumblr update. Don’t care; my characters mean a lot to me. I imagine most writers feel something for the personalities they create on paper.

Speaking of new stories, the next books pretty much ready to publish. Just trying to figure out a cover for it now.

Something like that maybe? I do like it, but I think I need to alter the sizes and shades of grey a little. Dunno, I’ll figure it out.

Thinking I should start selling my spare book covers as well. I have piles of the ruddy things on my hard drive that look fab but don’t fit the books I’m releasing.

 

49 thoughts on “Saying goodbye to old characters?”

  1. Your characters are fascinating to me. They live in a world that seems far from where we live, in my mind anyway. Each post is like a short story to me. ❤️

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  9. I can only hope my writing leads me to your success of following it full time. I graciously borrowed your Lady Lozenge episode as an office-by the way did you guys hear… My verbal delivery was great, but of course it was your material that had them chuckling.
    Keep the pride you have in your characters and keep sharing.

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    1. Thank you. It’s not quite there yet, but here’s hoping the new year will be it. 🙂

      Heh, glad you and your offie enjoyed the pun. 🙂

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  10. As I’ve said. Or not. We have a hundred characters in the wings. Some are old characters in new clothes. Some need new names. In any literary adventure there is the new, and the old. how cleverly we disguise the guest stars is our own doing, eh? No good character ever hits the bin. Like old truck drivers. They don’t die, they just get a new Peterbilt. Peter, eh? There’s three or four puns rolled up in that tortilla. Rock on, brother.

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  11. Your characters would look great anywhere. And they have such amazing adventures. They are so unique and a lot of fun.

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  12. I wouldn’t give up on the new characters, though! Maybe they get as famous and iconic as the current Fears. Either way, whether you focus on the old Fears or the old ones, I’m still a huge fan!

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    1. Ah, the new characters are going to be around for at least a year. Some have journeys that end and some will carry on in the land in-between.

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  17. Keep up the great work! So glad to see that you’re following your heart and being true to yourself, it’s inspiring. ☺️

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    1. I have enough tales written to post daily until 2022 heh. They do change a bit over the next year, but there’s still a lotta puns. 😛

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