Progress Report: The Ship
Jun. 6th, 2008 08:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jeriendhalRecord daily word count for this project so far! Go me. Though admittedly it's only a bit over half of what I did yesterday when I was working on complete fluff.
I think part of the problem is that I don't know these characters very well. I can pop off horribly angtsy with Marty because I can get inside his head. Right now I've got a vague idea of what drives Paul (guilt from killing his shipmates, and a sense of curiosity), but trying to divine Quell's motivations is harder. This story, more than most of mine, is really driven by the plot and the MacGuffin rather than the characters, which is good in one sense (in that it actually has a plot), but not so much in the fact that these new people aren't really ready to tell me their opinions on what they should be doing, so I'm the one that has to come up with their actions.
Which makes me sound utterly insane.
Or it just means I'm a writer.
Goal: 100,000 words
Words Today: 899
Words Total: 4,640
Words to Go: 95,360
I think part of the problem is that I don't know these characters very well. I can pop off horribly angtsy with Marty because I can get inside his head. Right now I've got a vague idea of what drives Paul (guilt from killing his shipmates, and a sense of curiosity), but trying to divine Quell's motivations is harder. This story, more than most of mine, is really driven by the plot and the MacGuffin rather than the characters, which is good in one sense (in that it actually has a plot), but not so much in the fact that these new people aren't really ready to tell me their opinions on what they should be doing, so I'm the one that has to come up with their actions.
Which makes me sound utterly insane.
Or it just means I'm a writer.
Goal: 100,000 words
Words Today: 899
Words Total: 4,640
Words to Go: 95,360
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Character development.
Date: 2008-06-07 02:51 am (UTC)I can't find my regular ones (all my links were deleted in the last upgrade) but heres one thats not too bad.
http://www.curufea.com/games/western/5e/question.php
Warned... this sort of thing can be real fun but a huge time killer if you're not careful.
This one is just silly fun for generating random characters... one sentence descriptions only.... can sometimes spit out something usable:
http://www.seventhsanctum.com/generate.php?Genname=charscramble