Here’s the next stop on my blog tour! Many thanks to Beem Weeks for hosting! If you’re familiar with Thyron, you can find out a little in this post about how he sprouted and became part of my novels.
Meet Thyron, a Flora Peda Telepathis
Creating engaging characters is not only important to a story’s success, but fun and challenging. Sometimes it takes deliberate thought and hard work to figure out everything about him or her: hair and eye color, quirks, talents, weaknesses, favorite comfort food. However, knowing your characters intimately brings them to life, at which point they help write the story. I love it when that happens!
Thyron, a flora peda telepathis (telepathic walking plant) who appears throughout the Star Trails Tetralogy, was different. I didn’t have to go through a long, drawn-out, creative process to bring him to life. Rather, it was more like Pallas Athene, who burst forth from her father, Zeus’s, head as an adult (clothed in battle armor, no less–no wonder he had a headache).
In other words, Thyron showed up fully developed. Getting to know him was more a matter of…
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