My Miracle Stories

So, as it goes I have three Miracle stories focusing on original characters, well, it's actually five--but three of the stories are a trilogy, so I'm counting those as one since they revolve around the same original character.

In all three of those stories, Of Dreams and Miracles, Whatever It Takes, and To Make A Miracle, my original character is a fictional older daughter of Herb Brooks from a fictional first marriage.

Yet, though they were all based on the same idea, the three daughters are incredibly different people. Especially my newest creation, Anita, the main character in To Make A Miracle. I'll admit that Lexi, from Whatever It Takes, and Liz, from Of Dreams and Miracles, actually share a lot of similarities, mainly because Lexi's story is what I thought Liz's was going to be, yet wasn't.

However, Anita is totally different from them both and thus her story is completely different. It's not the same story, the same problems taken a different direction, it's a new story, with new problems and new love interests.

I love all three of my characters. I don't feel I created them, more that I discovered them. After all, I only intended to write one Miracle story, not three different sets of them. That was never in the plans, but it just kinda happened.

Liz is the sweetest of the three original characters and also my favourite. She's done three years of college, yet decided to take time off and isn't sure she'll ever finish her degree, because really it's just not that important to her. A complete Daddy's girl, the conflict in her home life is between her and her mother, who just doesn't understand her. She lives at home because that's where she's happiest. She's gentle and committed, definitely a girlfriend-girl. She doesn't like conflict or violence. She holds grudges and clings to things long after she should have let them go. She tries to shut away what she's really feeling, so that she doesn't have to deal with the pain. She's the mothering type, even though she can't cook. She loves sports, especially hockey, and she's comfortable being "one of the guys".

Then there's Lexi, who's a lot like Liz, just spicier. She's done with college, with a degree in psychology. She's a Daddy's girl, but she actually gets along pretty well with her Mom. Yet, as much as she loves her parents, she has her own place, because her parents tend to smother her. She's temperamental and tends to fly off the handle. She's been in a serious relationship for several years, yet doesn't define as the relationship type, she thinks she'd be just as comfortable with a fling. She puts it all out there for you and doesn't hold anything back. She's in your-face, very confrontational. She's a sports nut, skated for years, and loves to play and watch any sport she can. She's comfortable being "one of the guys", but never for a second lets them forget that she's also a girl. She's a tomboy, yet infinitely feminine all at the same time.

Lastly, there's Anita. She's dropped out of college twice and isn't sure she'll go back. She can't hold a job for longer than a few months. Her relationship with her father is extremely strained, she just doesn't know to realize to him and never has. Relationships aren't her strong suit, she's never had one last more than a few months. Mostly because when things get hard or complicated, she tends to run away. She doesn't deal with her feelings, she runs from them. She doesn't know how to deal with things properly. She hates sports, especially hockey, because she's always associated it with her father. She's easy to get along with, but hard to get to know.

Maybe that's why I couldn't resist writing a new story, because of the three, Anita is the most intruging character. There's so conflict, so much anger in her and her story and I'm eager to explore that. That's what I like about these three stories, is that the girls are all so different, so it's not like writing the same thing over and over, at least I don't feel that it is.