Character Development Archive
I had a decent day of over 700 words this morning, wrapping up my second scene – the first from my second character’s perspective. I meant the scene to be about a highway robbery, but it made more sense to …
Yesterday, I wrote about taking a looser approach to my scene planning, focusing on the purpose of the scene and letting it develop from there. But today, I came across the concept of creating scene beats, and I think that …
Dissatisfied with my progress over the past couple of days, and especially how the words were not flowing, today I was determined to get into a rhythm. That means not stopping myself or second-guessing my wording. It also means picturing …
Not a quarter of my book – I haven’t even hit 10k words in the rough draft (writing that, it’s a little depressing to think that 10k is some authors’ daily output – but that’s why I’m here, to tell …
I’m not sure if this is the right thing to do, and I won’t know until I actually start working on the draft, but one thing I wanted to do was to have storylines for each of my characters. I …
Today, I started trying to map specific events in my story to the 22 plot steps from Truby’s Anatomy of Story. I have multiple storylines going on in this book, but for now, I’m working on the hero’s core journey …
Today, I set out to start describing the last member of my hero’s traveling group. This character is from another kingdom and in many ways is a counterpoint to the heroine. She grew up in an aristocratic family, as well, …
Today, I finished the character interview for my best friend character, which leaves only one ally remaining, plus a few more antagonists to complete. I will have other characters in the story, as well, but fairly minor, so I don’t …
Today, I continued working on my best friend character from yesterday. Building on his emotional wound, it was fairly easy to create his internal and external conflicts as well as his personality, talents and flaws. The only challenge I faced …
Today, I finished up the last few questions I had set in my character interview for my hero: Her likes, dislikes and her preference for spontaneity or planning (planning!) Since my character has grown up rather sheltered in a castle …