21. Do any of your characters have children?
How well do you write them?
Yes, many of my characters do have children, especially considering that a lot of the characters start out as parents - such as Queen Lavinia in the Destiverse and Mary Silverstone in The Gift Bearer. I really enjoy writing about families and to me the story doesn't end when the hero and heroine get married - kids are the natural next step in many ways and are quite a different - and sometimes more difficult -- kind of adventure. Since I love creating characters it makes sense to create offspring for my favorite heros. Most of my villains don't have kids though...maybe I should change that? I really liked how they did the villain as a dad in Despicable Me. Actually thinking about it, some of my villains do have kids - unfortunately they're the ones who really shouldn't have.
I think I gravitate to stories with families in them because of my own very close family, and also because my dad wrote 20-some books following the adventures of a magical family -- from the couple getting together to having children to having the kids grow up, get married, and have their own kids. I was raised with the idea that the story doesn't end with "and they lived happily ever after", so naturally I like to continue the story on. My biggest problem is that if I like the characters and the universe, then I don't want the story to end. That's why I've gravitated to TV Shows.
Some of my favorite character families are Lavinia/Ketlan's family, and the Silverstone family.
Lavinia/Ketlan's Family Tree from Destiny
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