This post is about how I came up with my favorite character in Nowonderland. His name is King Pin. He is an actual bowling pin that was brought to life in my hidden fantasy world, Nowonderland. King Pin's origin began thus; my son, at six or seven, had a birthday party at a bowling alley. Because he was the B-day boy, they gave him an old pin, that was spray painted silver and had a goofy face drawn on it. He kept this pin in his room for years. Any-hoo, when I was writing, I wanted someone sort of like the Queen of Hearts from Alice in Wonderland, but with no real power. I wanted him to be a narcissistic, power-tripping, know-it-all. Naturally, I based his personality on Donald Trump. He thinks he is the all-powerful king of Nowonderland, but even his flunkies know otherwise. They just play along to shut him up. I had a lot of fun writing his dialog and he is my fav, even though he only appears in chapter three.
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When I finished my first book, Nowonderland, I was overconfident in my ability to proofread apparently. I read through it four times before I published it and thought I caught all my mistakes. However, I just read through one of my author's copies and found about ten more mistakes I missed the first time. I fixed them all and uploaded the corrected version to KDP. (Thankfully, I'm only published in one place right now, so it wasn't to hard to fix. I believe I will invest in an editor in the future. Anyone else make this mistake?
Half sleep this morning, I had a goofy short story idea; Two loofahs, one a pessimist, one an optimist, make friends while hanging next to each other in the store. A couple of years later, they end up next to each other again in a landfill and compare notes on their lives. Turns out the pessimist was purchased by a young super model named Svetlana with a large shower and a lot of friends and the optimist by a large sweaty trucker named Jimbo.
