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August 20, 2014
The Character Development Series: Part Four
The conclusion tomy character creation series. You can find previous posts in this series here:
Character Development Questions #9 – ‘What if…’ Questions
These questions are designed to give you a different perspective on why certain things are important about your character – or why they’re not.
What if they’d been born with a different biological sex? Codex’s core southern ethics would have shifted, but a thirst for knowledge is universal as is a sense for trouble. Li...
August 13, 2014
The Character Development Series: Part Three
Continuing on with my character creation series. You can find parts one and two here:
Character Development Questions #5 – Relationships
Do they make friends easily? He is easy to meet and to get along with, but he has very few true friends.
Do they have a best friend? Yes. In his non-supernatural life Allen Martin has been his best friend since high school. In the supernatural world, he has become very good friends with Hannelore, a sorceress, who he has even started to invite t...
August 6, 2014
The Character Development Series: Part Two
Today, I’ll be continuing my character development series. Part One can be found here.
Character Development Questions #3 – Tastes
What’s your character’s favorite color? By looking at or talking to Codex it would appear that he favors deep blues and blacks, but his favorite color is actually red.
Do they/would they choose to wear a scent? What would it be? No, but those that have been close to him claim that he has developed a very unique scent in recent years.
Do they care about what things loo...
July 30, 2014
The Character Development Series: Part One
I doubt I could give you a better philosophy to follow on the subject of character creation than Hemingway, but perhaps I can manged to shed some light on the idea.
Hemingway’s character/caricature is more commonly known as a flat character. While these kinds of characters sometimes have their place, if they are the center of a story the will almost always fail.
A “l...
July 22, 2014
Introduction
“The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.”
I never really agreed with those words when I sat down to write new fiction. Beginnings are easy when you’re creating the story from scratch. Just pick a point and start writing, rewrite it, have some people look over it, rewrite it again, have some more critical people look over it, rewrite yet again, pay an editor to read over it, the rewrite it once more, and finally have someone go over it an...
