Saturday 21 June 2014

Five Facts About My Protagonist

Thank you Mariam Kobras for including me in this interesting idea. As all writers know, it's important to develop characters in order to make them believable; they need to have a back-story even if it's never mentioned your book. I actually have two protagonists because I'm writing a dual narrative spanning seventy-five years. The character I'm choosing is French and lives on a farm in a small rural village in the unoccupied zone during WW2.


1. She's a nineteen year old when her story begins and her name is Arlette Blaise.

2. Arlette falls in love with a new farm-hand, a Jewish doctor called Saul who's forbidden from practising by the Nazis.

3. Her dream is to teach but war in Europe prevents her from pursuing her wish.

4. Arlette is present during the nightmare of Oradour-sur-Glane in June 1944.

5. She bequeaths her farmhouse and its hidden secrets to her great-neice, Rachel Blaise, in 2014 - my second protagonist.

I pass this idea of five facts about your protagonist to five more writers - Annette Thomson, Kay Beer, Maria Smith, Rosemary Gemmell and Sara Sheikh .

4 comments:

  1. Your character - and the book - sound fascinating, Ange. I'm delighted to take the baton and will be posting mine presently.

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  2. You're welcome Annette. I look forward to reading your post. x

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  3. That picture is gorgeous, Ange. Is it one of your own? You should be madly proud of that! Love the '5 facts'. I've done a mini version on my facebook page. I wasn't able to properly tag you though, not sure why. Hope you're well. Good luck with the books, mine finishes tonight!!! (after 2 years) Phew xxx https://www.facebook.com/AbnormalANovel?ref=hl

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  4. Congratulations Sara. No, it's not my painting. I came accross it and it looked like my visions of my protagonist's house. Hope to see you at the writing studio's social soon. xx

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