Joe Clark
I am not sure how you define crazy. Beside I am just finishing my second book and even with two more on the drawing board, the sample size is too small for a real answer to your question.
I think my characters will always be off-normal to some extent. The main characters in "Survive" are a very bright, wounded warrior, with an engineering degree and a love of flying but no legs; a reservation Indian trying to make it as an FBI agent in white society and a moxie African American woman who has a future as an FBI agent - they are tasked with preventing an attack on our Capitol with a nuclear bomb made out of nuclear waste and hidden in a Winnebago. There is certainly some craziness. My second novel stars a suburban housewife, with a good-looking, intelligent husband (software engineer), two kids and a slightly unusual family of Irish relatives. There is some craziness but the tenor is more serious.
The other two books will probably be similar. But it is hard to tell. In both of my novels walk-on characters that I had not planned on develop into major players. FBI agent Amy Watson started out as a courier and ended up shooting the terrorist before he could set off the bomb. In this novel, the daughter, Becky, is much stronger than I expected. Hattie Stewart was brought into this novel to drive April Walsh around at night but she ends up with a much more important role. In one of the two novels that I have started, a Catholic Priest rescues a woman who has been beaten, robbed and raped and left for dead. She turns out to be a Morrocan Jewess who ghost writes for a living. I am sure that the two of them are going to end up married but I have no idea where the journey will take us.
I think my characters will always be off-normal to some extent. The main characters in "Survive" are a very bright, wounded warrior, with an engineering degree and a love of flying but no legs; a reservation Indian trying to make it as an FBI agent in white society and a moxie African American woman who has a future as an FBI agent - they are tasked with preventing an attack on our Capitol with a nuclear bomb made out of nuclear waste and hidden in a Winnebago. There is certainly some craziness. My second novel stars a suburban housewife, with a good-looking, intelligent husband (software engineer), two kids and a slightly unusual family of Irish relatives. There is some craziness but the tenor is more serious.
The other two books will probably be similar. But it is hard to tell. In both of my novels walk-on characters that I had not planned on develop into major players. FBI agent Amy Watson started out as a courier and ended up shooting the terrorist before he could set off the bomb. In this novel, the daughter, Becky, is much stronger than I expected. Hattie Stewart was brought into this novel to drive April Walsh around at night but she ends up with a much more important role. In one of the two novels that I have started, a Catholic Priest rescues a woman who has been beaten, robbed and raped and left for dead. She turns out to be a Morrocan Jewess who ghost writes for a living. I am sure that the two of them are going to end up married but I have no idea where the journey will take us.
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