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Friday, July 29, 2011

Step three-coming up with characters

This one is exciting!  I've been really looking forward to doing this step and seeing how it changes my view of the characters and the story.  The idea is to write a character sheet for each main character including:

  • The character's name
  • A one-sentence summary of the character's storyline
  • The character's motivation (what does he/she want abstractly?)
  • The character's goal (what does he/she want concretely?)
  • The character's conflict (what prevents him/her from reaching this goal?)
  • The character's epiphany (what will he/she learn, how will he/she change?
  • A one-paragraph summary of the character's storyline
I like this because it really fleshes out the characters for my mental video game (the way I think about writing my book).  When you play a video game, you have the storyline and the settings set up and then you often design your characters.  That's what I've done so far.  I can't wait to start playing the game.
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Once, the Imaskari were a great nation. In Deep Imaskar in the Underdark, the Imaskari are growing more and more resentful of the High Imaskari above the surface. They want to reestablish their old empire. To accomplish this, they have made a deal with the evil red dragons. In exchange for the destruction of their foes, the metallic dragons, the red dragons will help wreak havoc on those inhabiting the ancient lands of the Imaskari.

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