Rules for Writing the Deurologist

Hello! How was your Thanksgiving?

That’s a weird word: deurologist. It’s basically the side character, as a definition. But our guest poster has a great set of rules for this character!

Rules for Writing the Deurologist by Lenox Bozzelli

(Lenox is one of the poets in The Life of a Writer. Her poem, the whale one, is my favorite!)

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Rules for the deuteragonist! Do you wanna be a deuteragonist AKA the best friend? Well here are five simple rules you must follow:

1. You must always be obsessed with food. Especially a certain kind of food. Love that food and let it show.

2. You must be a slight coward. But you must think you are being reasonable. Your best friend wants to go slay a minotaur? You want nothing to do with it

   • First amendment being you can and will be dragged into it

3. You are the comic relief. Whether you realize it or not you are the one the readers love. You are the person everyone laughs at. Mostly for your cowardess.

4. YOU MUST BE THE LEAST POWERFUL OF THE OTHER LEADS. you will always be last and don't start to tell yourself otherwise.

5. There must be something different about you, but not in a cool way. Like everyone else in your group has bright colored eyes and yours are brown. Or you have flaming red hair or goat horns. Not useful different just different.

And there you have it!!! Your guide to being a deuteragonist!

Bonus from Leah N. Bix:

Oh and you must be completely obedient to the protagonist… and the one time you disagree with them, you must be the one in the wrong *nods*

Lenox Bozzelli is a Christian writer from the northwest United States. When she’s not writing with her partner-in-crime cat, Lenox’s either thinking about writing or listening to music (mostly for writing prompts). She writes fantasy because real-life is very boring.

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Ahh lovely. I think of Grover in Percy Jackson by Rick Riordan and Ron Weasley in Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling. Who do you think of? Comment below!