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Hope Ann replied to the topic Character Café in the forum General Writing Discussions 10 years, 11 months ago
This sounds like fun, if I can keep up. 🙂
My character is Anna West. She’s 18, a bit on the petite side, and has green eyes and dark brown hair. She is very organized, used to tight situations, has experience with fighting, guns, and information gathering. She lost part of her family in an attack two years ago. She’s a strong Christian and talks…[Read more]
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Hope Ann replied to the topic Write or die in the forum General Writing Discussions 10 years, 11 months ago
Ooooo, the boredmuse…is that meant to distract me from what I’m supposed to be doing or give me more ideas than I could possibly write?
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Daeus replied to the topic Write or die in the forum General Writing Discussions 10 years, 11 months ago
While you’re at it, check this out: http://boredmuse.com
Refresh the page to get a new idea.
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Daeus replied to the topic Write or die in the forum General Writing Discussions 10 years, 11 months ago
I didn’t even have a snack. Ten minutes full minutes without a snack.
… america
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Daeus started the topic Write or die in the forum General Writing Discussions 10 years, 11 months ago
Have you ever seen this? If not check it out.
It is a little application that can encourage you to stay on track with your writing through rewards or punishments. I only just found it and did a small test run, but it seemed to work really well. I wrote about 200 words in (maybe 8?, 10?) minutes. Now I think I really should…[Read more]
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Daeus replied to the topic Character Café in the forum General Writing Discussions 10 years, 11 months ago
I’ll join in.
My character (I’m assuming we don’t have to use MCs) will be Rameaux. He is a lighthearted bandit with a serious core. He is very friendly and courteous and practical and loves nothing better than to play around with the people he is robbing. He does whatever he has to in the banditry business without flinching but he is never…[Read more]
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Kate Flournoy replied to the topic Character Café in the forum General Writing Discussions 10 years, 11 months ago
Already I like him. 😉
I guess I should have described Arianwen. She’s probably about five feet ten inches— pretty tall for a woman, but she’s not big, just tall. Dark blue eyes, black hair, very white skin. She wears almost exclusively dark, vivid blue. And she has a pygmy dragon for a companion, but I don’t know if he’ll be popping up or not.…[Read more]
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Rosey Mucklestone replied to the topic Character Café in the forum General Writing Discussions 10 years, 11 months ago
Arianwen sounds awesome, @kate-flournoy!
I’ll be doing this with Captain Quinn.
He’s a firm believer in God, though doesn’t take opportunities to shove it in people’s faces. Selfless and loyal to his friends. Good logical thinker and problem solver. A dedicated optimist. If anyone here does character MBTI, he’s an ISFJ.
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Kate Flournoy replied to the topic Character Café in the forum General Writing Discussions 10 years, 11 months ago
You and I must have been posting at the same time, @writefury. 😀 I understand it now, I think.
So let me be the first to introduce my character. Her name is Arianwen— Anwen for short, except only I and her husband are allowed to call her that. So she’s Arianwen to you.
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Kate Flournoy replied to the topic Character Café in the forum General Writing Discussions 10 years, 11 months ago
I’m not sure I’ve quite got the concept, but you can count me in for sure!:P This sounds really fun.
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Rosey Mucklestone replied to the topic Character Café in the forum General Writing Discussions 10 years, 11 months ago
@Daeus, yes. We’ll have all of our characters in the same situation, talking to each other and all that.
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Rosey Mucklestone replied to the topic Bad heroes, messed up protagonists, and character arcs in the forum General Writing Discussions 10 years, 11 months ago
Oh, that sounds good. And since you guys had Walter kill Alex’s family before, this could be right after that, since that would be Walter’s lowest point in the story. He doesn’t know that Alex is the play director/ puppeteer of what he’s watching, and Alex reveals himself just after the significance of the cloth has had a little bit of time to sink in.
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Daeus replied to the topic Character Café in the forum General Writing Discussions 10 years, 11 months ago
So would we all be using the same situation?
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Daeus replied to the topic Bad heroes, messed up protagonists, and character arcs in the forum General Writing Discussions 10 years, 11 months ago
For How he looses the cloth:
How about Alex steals it from him in order to use it for some great plan of his to help Walter realize what he has truly become. I’m thinking something very Nathan and Davidy. I’m thinking Alex could frame some sort of scenario that Walter would watch happening which would cause him to become very concerned about the…[Read more]
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Rosey Mucklestone started the topic Character Café in the forum 10 years, 11 months ago
So, this is a sort of character/writer game (the OYANers among us will recognize it) I thought it would be fun to start up here.
The concept here is that we each play the part of one of our story’s characters, give them a situation, and write our way out of it together.
Sound fun?
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Rosey Mucklestone replied to the topic Bad heroes, messed up protagonists, and character arcs in the forum General Writing Discussions 10 years, 11 months ago
He could be fighting for the right reasons the whole time, just the wrong way. And the good guy opens his eyes to a better way. A Godly way, perhaps.
I love the piece of cloth symbolism bit. That’s really good. Just the image that it brings up in my mind. This toughened, villainous looking man, wearing dark clothes and the classic villain garb.…[Read more] -
Hope Ann replied to the topic Bad heroes, messed up protagonists, and character arcs in the forum General Writing Discussions 10 years, 11 months ago
Loyalty could be another driving passion. Either loyalty to some old comrade or leader so that the friendship is more important than the bad stuff the other person wants to do. Or loyalty to a wrong cause…or even a good cause, such as justice, but going about it the wrong way/or with no mercy.
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Daeus replied to the topic Bad heroes, messed up protagonists, and character arcs in the forum General Writing Discussions 10 years, 11 months ago
I suppose so. I got distracted. I think half our group is too busy with NaNoWriMo to focus on the forum.
We only just got started with this subject though so it’s about time it got resurrected.
let’s start with this. What can you use to drive your bad hero in his badness? Let’s just brainstorm and come up with as many options as we can. We…[Read more]
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Kate Flournoy replied to the topic Bad heroes, messed up protagonists, and character arcs in the forum General Writing Discussions 10 years, 11 months ago
So… um… did this thing just die? 😛
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Rosey Mucklestone replied to the topic Scene Critique in the forum Novel Critique Requests 10 years, 11 months ago
Thanks, @hope! 🙂
That little snip of dialog actually came all by itself when I was making notes a few chapters before. 😛 - Load More
