WIP: Things to do Before Starting Your Novel I found a site that listed 25 steps to take before beginning your journey (warning: this link contains foul language). One of the recommended steps is “Test Drive Those Characters”. The step is outlined as: ” I will advocate this until the day I die. (Or the…
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The Characters Are Already Talking A few writers that I have been following have mentioned that the characters speak to them during the writing process. I have only just started, but already one of my characters told me that his job didn’t make sense. Having thought about what kind of person I was trying to…
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WIP: Fifth Update I set myself a challenge last week to finish all of the back stories by the end of today. I am happy to report that I have completed them! I am glad that I decided to do this, as it helped strengthen the characters. By creating their pasts, it has shown how…
Read MoreCharacters: 5 of 12 created A very productive weekend this week…after beginning the outline of the plot and characters in a small workbook, with torn out pages and scribbles everywhere, the pages began falling out. To avoid losing all the work I had done, I decided to move the ideas to another workbook. In doing…
Read MoreCharacter Seeds I have started plotting out the characters that will be in the story. It was harder than I thought it was going to be. Initially, the characters which I outlined only covered a narrow band of the narrative; I had to think of the characters that would be needed to cover the entire…
Read MoreCharacter Building Currently planning out the main characters that are to be in the story. I’m currently planning out how many characters are to be included – trying to define who is going to be in the story to avoid unnecessary characters from entering the story. This will keep structure in the story and stop…
Read MoreWriting Tips – Mind Maps: Characters Probably the most important part of any story are the characters. They are the inhabitants of your world, and if you cannot describe them, then your audience will be unable to connect. The challenge is to create characters that are believable. How do you do this? Think about people…
Read MoreWriting: Stage 0.2 It’s been a while since Stage 0.1, so I thought I would give an update. I’ve had some thoughts about how to go about starting. I realised that I needed to have some sort of structure or plan as to how I am going to go about starting this. Before I delve…
Read MoreWhy I like reading As per my last post, I explained my obsession with music. Today I thought I would delve into the world of the written. I have always enjoyed reading, but over the last few years I have moved away from it because of all the other hobbies, work, and study that I…
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