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NoNoWriMo
Not today, and certainly not now after I've taken the drugs I appear to have taken this evening. However, did eavesdrop on some dialogue in my head and I'm pleased to learn that a character I'd previously thought of as mainly an incompetent obstacle with notions of empire building, paranoia, and defensiveness might just step up to the plate to be a bit evil too. He's got a bit of blackmail on his side to have kept and promoted him long past the value of his actual skills. That would be nice, and as a bonus, would explain a few other things too.
I am terribly keen to understand the motivations of characters and the circumstances that got them into (and thence out of) situations, and hopefully that will show up in my work. In an elegant and entertaining way. That would be nice too.
Yunno, I think this might even qualify as a NaNo post :-)
I hope people aren't finding these posts about writing too dull. They are a record of the lessons that I am learning as I work through this process for the first time. In my experience such lessons need to be consolidated. I don't pretend to have insights to share with any one else--I lay no claim to guruhood or even the competance to teach--but I'm finding that sharing these insights with myself is very useful.
I am terribly keen to understand the motivations of characters and the circumstances that got them into (and thence out of) situations, and hopefully that will show up in my work. In an elegant and entertaining way. That would be nice too.
Yunno, I think this might even qualify as a NaNo post :-)
I hope people aren't finding these posts about writing too dull. They are a record of the lessons that I am learning as I work through this process for the first time. In my experience such lessons need to be consolidated. I don't pretend to have insights to share with any one else--I lay no claim to guruhood or even the competance to teach--but I'm finding that sharing these insights with myself is very useful.