Planning (Or What Passes For It)

Ideally, the story idea is knocking around in my brain before having to go through the process of meeting the characters.

This hasn’t always been the case for me.

My most notable example of ‘random characters’ developing a story is the Scarred Sun Trilogy. I browse a lot of websites for inspiration. One day while surfing through the Renderosity community, I stumbled on this image by Phillip Mullin (Renderosity user Geist1) and I was hooked. I had no idea of Mr. Mullin’s inspiration for (what I...