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As a reader what attracts you most to a character?<\/p>\nAs a reader what attracts you most to a character?<\/p>\n
I think all of us want to read books with a captivating story and memorable characters, books we can\u2019t put down until the last page.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m not attracted to the he-man with hot eyes, growling voice and the body of Adonis, or the luscious blonde with an impossible hourglass figure because they aren\u2019t real.<\/p>\n
It doesn\u2019t matter if our choice is historical, modern or futuristic, I believe our characters should have faults and flaws, just like us. We can relate to how she\u2019s feeling when those scales notch up another 5 pounds, smirk a bit when he finds a few more grey hairs, mutter \u2018don\u2019t be so damned stupid\u2019 when they stuff up and feel happy for them when they come through.<\/p>\n
Downton Abbey<\/em>, the incredibly popular British drama television series, is a perfect example of wonderful true-life characters. Whether they were the aristocracy, the poor relations or below stairs servants, they were not plastic stereotypes, they were believable. Just the same as not wanting a good book to end, we hated saying goodbye to them.<\/p>\n I loved the Poldark series, based on the novels of the same name by I\u2019m sure what attracts us to these characters is seeing a bit of ourselves in them.<\/p>\n What do you think?<\/p>\n Read the next blog in the blog hop by going here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Jan<\/a><\/p>\n Perilous Love<\/a> As a reader what attracts you most to a character? I think all of us want to read books with a captivating story and memorable characters, books we can\u2019t put down until the last page. I\u2019m not attracted to the he-man with hot eyes, growling voice and the body of Adonis, or the luscious blonde … Continue reading “Character desires\u2014Jan #MFRWauthor”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1070,5,1246,1],"tags":[33,518,1558,28,1557,130],"class_list":["post-2859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-52-week-challenge","category-author-information","category-mfrw","category-uncategorized","tag-character-development","tag-characters","tag-downton-abbey","tag-jan-selbourne","tag-poldark","tag-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wA33-K7","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2859"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2867,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2859\/revisions\/2867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Tin](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Depositphotos_8855113_s-2019_CornishTinMine.jpg?resize=150%2C150&ssl=1\")
Winston Graham. Those characters, with their strengths and weaknesses, held millions of people captivated until the final scene.<\/p>\n
\nThe Proposition<\/a>
\nThe Woman Behind the Mirror<\/a>
\nLies of Gold<\/a>\u2014Silver Historical for 2019: Coffee Pot Book Club<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"