Monday, February 12, 2024

An Unusual Place where Characters from Literature Exist and Interact

Somewhere, hypothesize, that characters from countless selections of literature exist and interact.

Making educated guesses based upon your chosen individuals from novels, movies, etc., take us on a mystery tour of their conversations, actions, and views.

Probably, to write your adventure, assume your main character's 1st-person point-of-view, though any other would also be fine. And for those of us who may not yet have read your chosen book, mention the title in brackets or parentheses.

Place the characters in a particular novel or real-life setting.

Maybe, have them talk with and interact with actual famous individuals. For instance, Huck Finn (Mark Twain's novel) and Wolf Larsen (Jack London's The Sea Wolf) meet John Proctor (the real victim in the Salem Trials, or the fictional one of  Arthur Miller's The Crucible).

Playing around with time and space is a possible option, too. What if Europeans didn't discover the Americas?! Or a current American political leader shows up in 1859 and meets Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara (Mitchel's Gone with the Wind)?

The possibilities in this imaginative literary lounge are limitless:-)
In the Light,
-Dan Wilcox