I came up with the idea of the main character, Parodie Trilogy, from Nickelodeon’s Avatar: The Last Airbender’s Katara. In my eyes, Katara is a strong, and clever warrior, and I knew I wanted those qualities (and appearances) in my main character. The name Parodie was evolved from the name I originally gave her, Melodie (an alternate spelling for Melody), which was supposed to represent Parodie’s love for music….
Every scene with Pope (Colin Cunningham), Matt (Maxim Knight), and Crazy Lee dealing with her injury is very intense and sentimental. The death scene with Cunningham and Carro is devastating, and left me in tears. Knight did a fantastic job of acting, and looking, shocked and internally destroyed. Cunningham showed that he is a true actor (and that Pope has cares about his people after all), as he expresses care towards Crazy Lee when she is first injured, and while she is dying in the hospital room. At the end of the final scene with Crazy Lee, Pope gives her necklace to Matt, proving he really does look after him. My mother made a joke about Pope being the one who is actually raising Matt, not him….
Back It Up: Every good novel has to have some form of back story. So once you have established the basic back bone of your plot, go back in time. What were characters doing 5 months before your novel begins? One year? 5 years? What was the world like perhaps? Society? This is all vital for a fool-proof plotline/novel.
The Hipster Kitty Express 