An Unseen Compliment
I have a fun character in one of my stories who seems to stand out in my mind. I think I might have done an okay job bringing him to life. For the sake of this post, I will call him “Jimmy”
My wife has read the novel-in-progress and has seemed to enjoy it. Anyway, we were on a road trip this weekend, and she saw a guy from the car window. She yelled at me “there’s Jimmy!”
I looked over, and sure enough, there was the physical representation of the character I wrote. What made it cool, was that she thought the same thing. Unprovoked.
I guess that means that a got it down on paper just like I wanted.
That’s awesome. I think you nailed it.
yeah, it was kind of surreal, and a cool feeling.
Oh, it gives me the shivers when that happens. it’s wonderful!
Was this a stranger who was the image of the character you wrote, or did you base it on someone anonymous and yet your wife worked out who ‘Jimmy’ really was?
it was a stranger. The character itself was pretty stock I am sure. But just to see some dude on the side of the road and have someone else say the name from the story was surreal.