If you've been following along for a while, it's likely none of these confessions will come as a surprise. I've made them all before, but individually, across a variety of posts. Let's compile them, shall we?
All of the Dartmoor characters are very familiar to me by now. Give me a scenario, and I can tell you how each character would react. But I have an easier, more automatic time slipping into certain skulls, and Ghost's is the easiest. I'm not sure what that says about my personality, and maybe I don't want to know. Ghost would be an integral part of every book, given his president status, but he's also useful when I'm struggling with finding a story attack angle. If I throw him at a problem, I can bull my way through it.
In a subgenre densely populated by 6'4"+ bikers, surely there's a reader or two out there who prefers a short king. Or King, as it were, in Walsh's case. Personal taste aside, uniformity gets boring. I want all the Dogs to be different, with distinct skillsets and personalities. Not only is it more realistic, but it offers a little something for everyone.
I always, always prefer for the interpersonal drama amongst our "heroes" to be flavored with personal demons and self-doubt as opposed to the outsider-looking-in shock of "oh no, you mean you do illegal stuff?" That morality crisis is boring for me, and so while it's necessary to bring in new blood from outside the club, I run myself ragged with the whys and hows of that transition from civilian to Dog ally/old lady/member.
What can I say? They're two different flavors of the same brand of gremlin, and that will never not be fun for me.
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