Friday, October 2, 2015

Topic:

This week I got a little stuck. So, to fix that I'm adding a new character. Her name is in dispute, but I know most of the other stuff about her. I'm going to insert her chapter quite a bit back in the story, and then I'm going to give her another later on. At some point she's going to meet up with my other main characters.


Evidence:


"This was not working out well.
Three hours I had been trapped in the locker rooms, and three hours I had been able to hear the horrible maniacal laughter of the students I had thought died, waxing and waning on the other side the the wooden doors.
After drill, I had been the last one in the locker rooms changing, mostly because I left my shoes outside. I went to get them, and when I came back everyone was all changed. I hadn't even started.
It wasn't the worst turn of events ever. I hadn't gotten shot. But it was, if you considered that everyone on my team had  A: been killed by a shooter, B: turned into one of the cackling corpses or C: forced to run for their life.

Whether or not they were alive, I would not be If I didn't keep the cackling corpses outside of my safe haven."

Analysis:
The characters are really important to a story. I'm going to have to spend more time developing her. I want her to be more hard-core/kick-butt than my others. Connor is strong. He would have to be, considering how many sports he played. But this new girl is lieutenant colonel in ROTC. I haven't had much of a chance to describe her character yet, since I only have a few paragraphs,

Meaning:
Now I need to work more on developing her, developing her story, and back round. Then I need to figure out exactly what happens next.  I haven't had much of a chance to describe her character yet, since I only have a few paragraphs, thats what I need to work on the most.


5 comments:

  1. I can't wait to see what you do with this new character

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  2. Yay! I really want to read this when you finished, mostly because of how much I've heard about it from you.

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  3. I don't yet see this as the power character you were hoping for. Right now, she has to survive - maybe she'll show some strength along the way.

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  4. Would she know everyone else who had died? Your writing is alive as always, but you might want to make sure you aren't opening up holes in your plot, which can be a challenge with more characters.

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  5. Characters are hard to juggle. Good luck with this one.

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