Lots of times when people review my books they call my characters…. Get ready for it… QUIRKY.

This bird looks a little quirky here and I wish he were one of my characters, but he isn’t. He may be soon though.
Now, when I think of quirky, I think of my uncle Kilton.
If you are a man, Uncle Kilton will grab your bicep and check out your guns the moment he meets you. If you are a woman?
If you’re a woman … he guesses your weight. Now that’s quirky. It is also annoying, actually, but it’s definitely quirky.
If he can’t tell your gender? He’ll do both.
The quirkiness doesn’t stop there.
Uncle Kilton once ate a worm in his corn on the cob and said, “Mmm…. Protein.”
He chews pieces of grass and wears green maintenance worker pants with a white undershirt and flannel shirts. People call him Kilty.
He likes to rescue cats. He has about eighteen old pick-up trucks. He’s also built a telescope and is a millionaire. He has never gone on a vacation in his life.
So, compared to him I tend to not think my characters are ‘quirky.’ But it also gets me thinking about what makes our characters – characters. What makes them unique or quirky or flat or lovable? What makes them real?
The ultimate in quirk.
This week we’re going to try to find out. We’re going to look at major character. Those are the characters the story revolves around like the CAT in CAT IN THE HAT or HARRY POTTER and RON and HERMIONE. In our books there are also minor characters and placeholders but I’m going to blow them off for now, which makes me feel both powerful and mean. Sorry minor characters!
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