A Wicked Few Weeks by Dee S. Knight #WickedWednesday #CharacterDesign

WICKED WEDNESDAY

Dee S. Knight is always a welcomed guest on Discover... And all of her split personalities have a home here too!

Happy Wicked Wednesday, everyone!

Like many of you, I’ve spent the last few weeks watching the news on TV and witnessing the horror of brutality and then the horror of the reaction to it. By the reaction, I mean the destruction of businesses, livelihoods, and monuments. It has been indeed—in my mind—more than a Wicked Wednesday. It’s been a Wicked-Few-Weeks. It reminded me of our writing.

Many people say that America is rotten to the core because of our past. They want to destroy the past—remove certain names from schools, from our view, from our memories. They say the country has baggage. When we write, every main character we create has baggage—something from their past that they did or said or were part of that they’d like to forget. Maybe the character has tried to make amends in some ways, but that one historical time or act haunts him. What do we do as writers? We don’t let them forget. We make them face that baggage and address it. We make the character learn from the mistake by doing something that matters. We don’t claim the character is evil or worthless or unredeemable. That’s against the soul of a writer. It’s against the soul of a country, too.

We don’t have characters erase the past, we have them understand it and act in some meaningful way to make things better. Erasing the past means letting go of the chance to learn and redeem ourselves. I think there’s always a way to correct a past action, but we have to have dialogue to do it, not denial of all that came before us, and destruction/rewriting of our history means our future “characters” have no basis to do so. That is wicked to me.

I hope this post doesn’t offend anyone. I’m just old enough to know that one open discussion will do more than spray painting graffiti on buildings or burning our past and present symbols. With age does come some wisdom…

In my book (written as Anne Krist), the main character, Sara, committed a huge mistake in her past. She tried to erase what she’d done, but I made her face her past and do something to correct her error. It’s the only way she can go forward. It’s not easy to do it—she has to cross bridges she thought she’d burned in order to get in a good place.

Burning Bridges
”Letters delivered decades late send shock waves through Sara Richards’s world. Nothing is the same, especially her memories of Paul, a man to whom she'd given her heart years before. Now, sharing her secrets and mending her mistakes of the past means putting her life back together while crossing burning bridges. It will be the hardest thing Sara’s ever done.

Author Anne Krist:

A few years ago, Dee S. Knight began writing, making getting up in the morning fun. During the day, her characters killed people, fell in love, became drunk with power, or sober with responsibility. And they had sex, lots of sex.

After a while, Dee split her personality into thirds. She writes as Anne Krist for sweeter romances, and Jenna Stewart for ménage and shifter stories. All three of her personas are found on the Nomad Authors website. Also, once a month, look for Dee’s Charity Sunday blog posts, where your comment can support a selected charity.

Anne Krist is the “sister” to erotic romance author Dee S. Knight. She is quieter, more reserved, and certainly more circumspect about S-E-X than her wild and crazy sibling. Thus she’s more comfortable writing sweet(er) romance, where there might be a few sensual scenes, but no more than that. One thing about Anne: she’s not more romantic than Dee. They both write in happily ever after and share the solid belief that love can last forever and beyond!

Author links:

Website: https://nomadauthors.com
Blog: http://nomadauthors.com/blog
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