Jenks gets, er, big? Fistful of Charms read-along

Oh, man. I’m up to chapter eight, cutting my reading off last night right after Rachel turned Jenks human size. This is one of the reasons FOC is among my favorites of the entire series, and not because of his drool-worthy looks.

Writing Jenks this size was a challenge: his personality had to stay the same, but his movement tags and what he was capable of needed to change. We’re seeing new things about him, things like his fidgeting, (he was too small to notice before), and his need to have a different toothbrush every morning. His delight in being on equal footing in a human size world felt natural, and I don’t remember now if I ever had him standing in front of a door waiting for someone to open it for him, but if I didn’t, I should have.

I tried to give him a few missteps without making him into an idiot. So he hits walls and falls down until he learns his new balance, but he has no problem driving a car. I didn’t want to make him stupid. It was a balance, and I worked hard at it.

I kind of miss the humansize Jenks, which might be why I shrunk Rachel down in a later book. But in the end, he had to go back to the way he was, because Jenks is Jenks, and I’d have him no other way.

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