Tag Archives: Scrooge

Get Ready for a New Year’s Bash!

Posted on January 4, 2016 by susancarey

We all want to create or experience characters that come off the page, don’t we. Portability is the phenomenon by which fictional characters manage to exist outside the text of their original literary setting. Freed and animated by public imagination … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged creating memorable characters, Dickens, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Fan-fiction, Jane Eyre, Portable characters, Pygmalion, Scrooge, Sherlock Holmes, the craft of writing, Wide Sargasso Sea | 1 Comment

Make up the Fires, Bob Cratchit!

Posted on December 11, 2012 by susancarey

‘A merrier Christmas, Bob, my good fellow, than I have given you for many a year! I’ll raise your salary, and endeavour to assist your struggling family, and we will discuss your affairs this very afternoon, over a Christmas bowl … Continue reading →