Killer Questions - If You Could Be Any Character?

Killer Questions – If You Could Be Any Character?

Writers use their imaginations to create characters that they hope will be memorable. That said, sometimes, authors envy what other writers have created. Today, we explore what character in a novel or short story each of our bloggers would want to be for a day and why. 

Heather Weidner - I would love to be Nancy Drew. She has been my favorite sleuth for years, and it would be an adventure to solve some mysteries with Bess and George.

Martha Reed - I’d choose Zita “Double Z” Ztschesche from my short story “The Honor Thief” included in “This Time for Sure" the Anthony Award-winning Bouchercon 2021 anthology. I still get tickled by the the way Zita skates between justice and felony behavior. The story is available as a free read on my website: https://www.reedmenow.com/short-fiction

Connie Berry - I'd like to be my own Kate Hamilton because being her for a day might give me some great plot ideas.

Grace Topping - Definitely Maisie Dobbs of the international bestselling Maisie Dobbs mystery series. Maisie is a character that I would love to have in my life. She is relatable, wise, smart, and a whole bunch of other adjectives. I wish I could be more like her. A lot of other people agree, and as a result, someone created the Facebook page, What Would Maisie Do?

Paula G. Benson - Miss Melville, the art teacher who inadvertently becomes a hit woman with a conscience, in the series by Evelyn E. Smith. Miss Melville’s a lot like a Clint Eastwood character, a loner with a moral code who finds a “family” under unique circumstances. I loved her resilience.

Debra H. Goldstein – Miss Marple. I’ve reached that stage in my life that I’d like to be able to simply sit and figure everything out.

James M. Jackson - I would love to know what really goes on in the mind of Ruth Zardo of Three Pines (and Louise Penny's Chief Inspector Gamache series). I'm not sure a day would suffice, but it would certainly be interesting.

Sarah Burr - Bess Marvin—because that would mean getting to hang out with both Nancy Drew and George Fayne. I've always admired Bess for being the most realistic member of the group (and sensible about her safety), and I loved how much she enjoyed her food!

Annette Dashofy - I’m not sure about a specific character, but I’d love to spend the day in one of Walter Farley’s Black Stallion books. I lived in all of those when I was a kid.

Kait Carson - There are literary worlds I’d like to inhabit. Hong Kong as described in Clavell’s Nobel House and Taipan or India in any of M.M. Kaye’s books. In both cases, it’s the exotic that attracts. 

Lori Roberts Herbst - There are so many to choose from, but the mood I’m in right now leads me to Joyce Meadowcroft from the Thursday Murder Club books. I love her dry sense of humor and the workings of her brain. Plus, I’d love to have her tight-knit group of quirky friends.

Margaret Turkevich - Harriet Vane, Gaudy Night. I like the way she thinks.

Korina Moss - I’d be Hercule Poirot, because I want to know firsthand about those little grey cells…

Nancy Eady - Jo in Little Women.  I love that book, and she is my favorite character in it.  I love how strong and independent she is. 

Mary Dutta - Dorothea Brooke in Middlemarch. I’d ditch my dreadful, pedantic fiancé at the altar and go off to live the life I deserve.

Molly MacRae - Special Ops literary detective Thursday Next, first introduced in The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde. Why? She literally jumps into books to solve mysteries, she can time travel, dodos and mammoths have been brought back, and she drives a cool car.

Shari Randall - I just reread The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax, and I'd love to go on one of her adventures.

K.M. Rockwood - Lucy Pevensie in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.