The Many Misadventures of Bo
Hello Friends!
One of my favourite parts of reading a good book are the characters – and not just the main characters, but everyone else involved in fleshing out the world of a novel. I guess I’ve always been aware of secondary characters, but I really fell in love with the idea of them after I read The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde, which goes into detail about how characters fill the pages in a spectacularly imaginative way.
In writing my own novels, I never plan for the side characters to take on the life that they do – they seem to spring almost fully formed onto the page and dictate how I should write their stories.
Bo, from Thorunn, is one such character. Writing him was always a joy, and he spoke to me – yelled passionately, really – in a way none of the others quite did. I couldn’t help wanting to explore his character more outside of the novel.
When the next YourOcsBackstory event rolled around, I jumped at the opportunity to dive into Bo’s backstory and work through the standout moments that made Bo the prickly, dramatic, and fiercely loyal klia’an we meet in Thorunn.
All the prompts that I filled for the challenge have been uploaded to Wattpad, and I hope you’ll enjoy reading them as much as I enjoyed writing them!
Without further ado, I present:
The Many Misadventures of Bo
Happy Reading!
ETJ
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