Characters for Our Epic Tale

Let's Get Some Options on the Table

Image is of a limited edition poster by Tom Gauld. I love everything about it except the fact that it sold out before I could get a copy. I mean look at how wonderful that thing is.

Now that poster is beyond my limited skills, (Seriously, I tried to draw a cowboy and a wizard in a similar style. Ugh) but I have compiled a list of potential characters in for the town of Nowhere and surrounding environs.

Full Disclosure: I have started writing and I’m about 12,000 words in at this point, so I’ve figured out a few useful and interesting characters — but so much of this work is wide open at this point. So if you have an idea for a character that’s not here — or a motivation — or a twist on one of these characters — throw it in the comments.

The clay is still very wet. Come put your thumbprint in it.

Here’s the intro post that explains the project if you need it for context.

• Engineer installing pumps for the mines

• Muleteer/teamster/wagon train guys

• general store owner

• hotel owner

• Padre Kino https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eusebio_Kino_

• Monk/Abbot (mission outpost outside of town) JESUITS!!!

• Cochise https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochise

• professional gambler

• whores/madam

• second hotelier/casino owner

• Chinese opium den and laundry

• Quai Chang Kane/Toshiro Mifune from the movie Red Sun

• Miners and mine owner -- https://www.tombstonesilver.com/mines-near-tmbstn.html (want money)

• Labor/Union organizer

• Stagecoach agent

• Cavalry (commander wants glory)

• Pulp writer

• Monks and Abbot

• Lutheran/Baptist church

• Bass Reeves

• Harvard man traveling the west (special expertise relevant)

• Ranchers/Rustlers (want power and to drive off the easterners)

• Sheriff (Wants wealth and respect)

• Mine Owner

• Town Marshall (wants justice - professional )

• Tracker/Hunter/Trapper

• Feral kid who lives with the dogs behind the livery stables

• Sharpshooter (disillusioned from Civil War -- refused to shoot fleeing troops

• Shitty, Shitty Mayor (wants Fame and Authority)

• Railroad/Steam Engineer

• Rancher (Phineas Clanton)

• Livery Stable

• We all know the livery stable was a necessary institution in every town and city. In addition to providing vital transportation service it was a source for hay, grain, coal and wood.

• Freed slaves

• Civil war vets?

• Outlaw about to be hung

• Black cowboy who can break anything -- brings in herd of wild horses by breaking the mustang at the front.

• Apache/Comanche

• Shaman

• War Leader

The Process of Editing

I did a series of videos about editing “Edwin Windsor.” I think it’s some good stuff, but the content is niche for sure. But if you’re interested in this part of the process. You can check them out here.

Unfortunately these videos followed Muphry’s Law (intentional misspelling) which says that anything written about writing will contain typos. Edwin Windsor shipped with a few grotty ones — but I’ve since had it re-edited and fixed as many of them as we could find.

If you give me money I will turn it into stories.

Click the button and I will make it happen.