Writing Challenge Tuesday: Sherlocked

I was watching Scandal in Belgravia tonight. It should be no surprise that I’m an Irene Adler fan if you’ve read basically any of my books. That said, my own lead female is of a different quality. 

I’d always considered Adler to be a right hand to power, which is sort of ironic because in the Faust books, I’m pretty sure Caitlin is the power. 

I promise, I’m going somewhere with this. I was thinking tonight of the weaknesses of main characters. Obviously, from Redemption Song, Caitlin is a huge part of Daniel’s weakness. She isn’t all of it, though. His own past and his fears are far more a ‘weakness’ than she is. 

All that said, I’d say he’s definitely SHERlocked for her. So my writing challenge is this: Who is your protagonist SHERlocked for? I’m sorry if you haven’t seen Scandal in Belgravia, because that’s not going to make any sense. But I suspect that years later it’s okay to spoiler. 

If your protagonist has a beloved, are they an Achilles’ heel, or a strength? If your protagonist has a mother, a child, a ward, a student - who is it that makes them act? I’m reminded of Molly from the Dresden Files, or Kenzi from Lost Girl. 

By the way, I’ll do an inspirations post on that next week, but Lost Girl is totally worth a watch.

Catch you all on Thursday for another Inspirations post!