Welcome back to another Open Book Blog Hop!

Today’s topic is: How do you keep track of your cast of characters?

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In short, I don’t. Currently, I’m surprisingly disorganised. My core characters, Edison Crow, Selah and a handful of others are somewhat committed to memory. Though when that fails me, I resort to returning to my books in search of the answers I need to avoid plot holes.

My wife bought me a character journal last Christmas, that will allow me to document the characters that I most use, so I can easily remind myself of anything important – characteristics, physical features, traits, etc. I’ve been in something of a writing slump of late, but I can feel the drive to pick up then pen returning slowly. I may just start out with this lovely little book to help me wrestle my charges into something resembling order, ready to push onwards.

Afterall, I have a third novel in The Chronicle of the Crows series to get back to work on, plus plans for a short story collection in that same world. Plus, a few ideas for spinoffs using characters from some of these, maybe novellas or further short stories. Who knows?