With a little help from a second writing session yesterday and a long one this morning, I have rounded out my cast of heroes, villains, and significant figures in the world, as they relate to this story. I think I have done a better job this time of keeping the characters on target, though I might have let a few of my villains develop a little too organically and not quite relevant to what my hero needs for her growth. We’ll see if I have to trim them back later. At least they have realistic backgrounds and reasons for their actions in the story and I don’t think any of them are cardboard cut-outs in any way.
My next step will be trying to get my setting information down, at least for the general outline of the major settings. I don’t want to over-detail it at this point, as I’ll need them to develop according to the needs of the story, and that will come as I focus on individual scenes. But at least I need the broad strokes so that I can draw a map later.
With that major milestone out of the way, I’m getting excited. One step closer to writing!