@the-wip-project Day 39

@the-wip-project Day 39

What kind of traits make a character interesting?

I've read a bunch of answers to this question, and like @sayonaramidnight, multi-layered, complex, conflicted characters are the most appealing to me. Especially if this complexity is non-apparent from the start. It automatically pulls me to the edge of my seat, expectant of the moment when they'll jump that plot-cliff. I'll be ready jump with them!

One collateral answer could be this, I live for the moments when this character is making THE DECISION™. The one that's going to flick the first domino of the series and trigger the course of actions they didn't know they needed. It might come with some collateral damage, some violent life-changing upheavals, heart-breaks, the end of important relationships even.

Such decisions require a determination that doesn't come easily for some types of characters. It can take a few chapters to bud and grow; it also can the spur of a instant. In any case, it's a beautiful thing to witness, as a reader and as a writer (*sniffles* proud) But the courage that comes thereafter to face the consequences is what makes a character a hero to me!

That's the ONE worthwhile revelation of the century!

250 words = 1 book page

OUT: I wrote only 1,000 words today :/

IN: I wrote FOUR whole pages of my book! ♡

Chapter 2 (2/3)

______

C1 ½, 2/2

C2 ½

@the-wip-project Day 36

The relationships you write, what kind of power-dynamics do they tend to have?

Thank you for this fascinating question ☺️ It has had me thinking a lot lately since I had never given the topic any thought since I started writing. And it particularly comes on point as I'm trying to figure out the dynamics of wip 2.

I noticed that, generally, the relationships my plots revolve around follow the same kind of pattern of communicating vessels. I'm not sure this image actually exists in the English language, but the idea is that each character possesses something (a quality, a trait of their personality, a personal situation) the other needs in order to grow or to achieve a more fulfilling sense of self, whether they're aware of it or not.

The plot helps them reveal those needs, deal with this new awareness while at the same time, debating whether they want to do down that lane or not. It's never an easy journey, not is it linear. Bumps and U-turns happen, and because I generally focus on one character's pov, the reader has to wait for the final revelation to understand that this process has gone both ways.

For the current wip, I'm debating over that question and wondering if I'm not going to disclose both points of view alternatively and let the reader see the dynamics evolve simultaneously. They would observe how the confident and bratty character's world is going to shift on its axis just as much as the one of the reserved character; how both will see their boundaries pushed back to uncharted territory. The insecure one will willingly step in the unknown and find a purpose while the confident one will actually end up not knowing where to go after having led the way at the beginning.

Power shifts is what I love to read, and write 😊

I feel this in my soul

Day 1

Welcome! Welcome!

This is the first day of the storybible project so let me give you a short explanation how I think this could go.

For 14 days I’ll make a post on this blog with a little homework. These will be short assignments, I don’t think you’ll need to spend more than 10 minutes on it. It’s up to you how you’ll use these assignments and how public you want to make them. Use the tag #WIPstorybible and mention this blog if you want more people to read them. 

I don’t plan to reblog all your posts but I’ll try to read them all. If I reply to one it will be with my main @barbex​, just so you know. 

I want you to think about a new or an underdeveloped WIP as you write down your notes. In the end, you’ll have the beginnings of a storybible that you can expand and refer to as you work on your story. 

Sounds good? Then let’s get started. 

Today’s assignment is about worldbuilding. 

Weather. 

What kind of weather is normal in your world? Does your world have seasons?

Make up a weather event in the past that people in your world still talk about.