Lee Child once said something like, “No one remembers the plot. All they care about is the main character.” And his Jack Reacher is certainly a striking example of a vivid, memorable protagonist.
Many other writers such as Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Paige Hawthorne, Bill Shakespeare, and Robert B. Parker have been lauded for their main men and leading ladies.
But sometimes a sidebar personality simply steals the spotlight. In “The Second Sausalito”, I had considered Eulalie Guidry to be a minor character. One intended to make one of the subplots a little more engaging. Instead, the 14-year old Cajun sexpot drew more reader responses than anyone else in the story.
Of course, SOL is a sex-story site, so her libidinous nature earned her a certain type of appeal here. Which reminded me to never underestimate the debauchery level of my three remaining readers.
Paige