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Post by Saint Ambrosef on Sept 5, 2023 17:36:53 GMT -5
What's the general opinion on character sheets?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2023 18:09:13 GMT -5
Neutral - I've used them a few times. Not too much as an opinion.
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Captain Americat
"Don't frown, someone could be falling in love with your smile." - Teen Wolf
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Post by Captain Americat on Sept 5, 2023 20:22:36 GMT -5
I write down my characters names and then just add info to them as I write because they’re constantly changing and evolving and I don’t like to trap them in so-called character sheets And it’s honestly mostly so I just don’t forget little details xD Hbu?
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Post by Saint Ambrosef on Sept 5, 2023 23:24:26 GMT -5
Not a big fan for the same reasons. Character sheets often make them feel too...idk, artificial? As if I'm looking for something to fill in a blank on a prompt just to have an answer, rather than being organically inspired in designing their character over time.
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Captain Americat
"Don't frown, someone could be falling in love with your smile." - Teen Wolf
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Post by Captain Americat on Sept 6, 2023 8:26:18 GMT -5
Sometimes I even put excerpts of my writing under their descriptions, too, if it's a really good indicator into who they are.
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Post by *Ɗαɾƙρσσℓ* on Sept 7, 2023 9:51:30 GMT -5
I've never used character sheets outside of dnd, but I keep character notes for reference which functionally turn into character sheets at some point I think.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2023 11:46:58 GMT -5
Noooooo, I was meant to productive and write some of Chapter 1, but Writer's block as struck!
Edit: I fixed it, found this cool thing on Pinterest. It cured it.
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Post by Brownie on Sept 7, 2023 16:36:16 GMT -5
I don't do character sheets but that's because I don't plan that hard. Usually a short couple bullet points on the MC's relation to other major characters + a few important backstory blurbs if they're important is enough to get me through the project
I don't (usually) give my characters physical descriptions in my writing, let alone determine their precise ages, or eye color, or anything else that would go on a formal character sheet. Bro sometimes I don't even decide my MC's name or GENDER until mostly through the project smh
I DO use character sheets for worldbuilding projects. Because that's how I tell stories in those projects.
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Captain Americat
"Don't frown, someone could be falling in love with your smile." - Teen Wolf
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Post by Captain Americat on Sept 8, 2023 18:14:30 GMT -5
I want to writeeeeeee~
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Post by ! (Ġray) ! on Sept 9, 2023 9:56:33 GMT -5
Why have I written 10,000 words in a day, deleted 8,000 and now have a storyline I'll need to edit about 8 times
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Post by Saint Ambrosef on Sept 9, 2023 10:40:33 GMT -5
Last night, I was trying to figure out the different religions and their respective sects/theology for my world building, and my brain got so muddled
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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2023 10:43:21 GMT -5
I'm starting to worry about myself...oh well, life of a writer, you gotta be a little insane.
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Post by *Ɗαɾƙρσσℓ* on Sept 9, 2023 15:25:42 GMT -5
tryna outline/plot while beating back scope creep with a stick :')
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Captain Americat
"Don't frown, someone could be falling in love with your smile." - Teen Wolf
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Post by Captain Americat on Sept 9, 2023 18:55:20 GMT -5
scope creep? what's that?
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Post by *Ɗαɾƙρσσℓ* on Sept 9, 2023 22:21:39 GMT -5
scope creep basically just means that your project's "scope" keeps expanding, in writing this might mean continually adding in characters and subplots, trying to tackle too many conflicts/messages at once, overcomplicating worldbuilding, shoehorning in too many tropes you like, adding writing gimmicks, etc. Basically just trying to do too much with one work. A lot of times it's just trying to shove every project idea you like into one WIP even though this generally means the individual additions end up underdeveloped and it starts making the WIP as a whole feel bloated, confusing, and contrived.
It's something I personally struggle with a lot in writing. I have trouble letting go of ideas even when I know I can always save them for a different project. Streamlining plots is also difficult lol I hate cutting things out even though I know it's usually the best thing for the narrative.
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Captain Americat
"Don't frown, someone could be falling in love with your smile." - Teen Wolf
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Post by Captain Americat on Sept 10, 2023 17:09:27 GMT -5
ahhh. I actually feel that. I get so many ideas and then I want to use them all now, even though, realistically, it's prob too much XD somehow, though, it all works out in the end
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Post by Saint Ambrosef on Sept 10, 2023 17:14:23 GMT -5
When ur series plan is five books so u don't have to worry about scope creep 👍
jk it will probably be an issue at some point
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"Don't frown, someone could be falling in love with your smile." - Teen Wolf
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Post by Captain Americat on Sept 10, 2023 17:16:10 GMT -5
//shrug// it can still happen XD
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All hail me, the flower-flushing queen of Prague
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Post by 𝓣𝓲𝓷𝓾𝓿𝓲𝓮𝓵 on Sept 10, 2023 17:18:12 GMT -5
scope creep basically just means that your project's "scope" keeps expanding, in writing this might mean continually adding in characters and subplots, trying to tackle too many conflicts/messages at once, overcomplicating worldbuilding, shoehorning in too many tropes you like, adding writing gimmicks, etc. Oh god, it has a name! I feel this nearly every time I start a new project.
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Warrior Fanatic
All hail me, the flower-flushing queen of Prague
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Post by 𝓣𝓲𝓷𝓾𝓿𝓲𝓮𝓵 on Sept 10, 2023 17:18:58 GMT -5
When ur series plan is five books so u don't have to worry about scope creep 👍 jk it will probably be an issue at some point As someone who has a few series in the works as well, it absolutely will. You'll be lucky if it doesn't.
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"Don't frown, someone could be falling in love with your smile." - Teen Wolf
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Post by Captain Americat on Sept 10, 2023 17:20:58 GMT -5
i often don't know the names for writing stuff XD i just write... heh
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Post by Saint Ambrosef on Sept 10, 2023 19:06:59 GMT -5
When ur series plan is five books so u don't have to worry about scope creep 👍 jk it will probably be an issue at some point As someone who has a few series in the works as well, it absolutely will. You'll be lucky if it doesn't. which is why i said it probably will lol
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does the candy hunting remind anyone else of cookie clicker? no… just me? okay.
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Post by 🎃ᦓρ꠸ᥴꫀᠻꪖꪀᧁ👻 on Sept 10, 2023 19:09:07 GMT -5
When ur series plan is five books so u don't have to worry about scope creep 👍 jk it will probably be an issue at some point Me with a seven book series plan: amateur /j
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Post by Saint Ambrosef on Sept 10, 2023 21:20:29 GMT -5
In all seriousness, does anyone have any advice for coming up with a creation myth? Most of the stuff I've found online hasn't been very helpful, and the ideas I've come up with so far give off "copy my homework" vibes of already existent myths. I know I want this one to center around a supreme being and a war between the faithful and fallen angels regarding the creation of humans, but I'm struggling for it to sound unique and not just a rip-off of the Christian creation story.
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Post by *Ɗαɾƙρσσℓ* on Sept 10, 2023 23:26:20 GMT -5
my wip is likely gonna be a tetralogy, scope creep generally is not something you can avoid by stretching out story length unfortunately, and in some cases I think it can actually make things worse D: more space to introduce unnecessary elements lol
the most important thing is to have a clearly defined idea of what you're trying to accomplish with your writing, and to not be afraid to cut off the things that don't serve that primary writing goal. I struggle with these things tho so I think I fall into the scope creep trap a lot, but for some people it's way less of an issue, especially really thorough planners.
my current scope creep trap is extra stupid bc it's a sociopolitical conflict subplot that i actually foresaw in early planning stages and already told myself i was not going to involve in the main plot of this story, except now as I'm planning out the ending in detail I got a concrete idea of how to bring it into the main plot. That's making it harder to ignore even though I know it definitely should not be there bc it's going to overwhelm the final act of the story if i include it.
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Post by valleylight on Sept 11, 2023 8:43:26 GMT -5
In all seriousness, does anyone have any advice for coming up with a creation myth? Most of the stuff I've found online hasn't been very helpful, and the ideas I've come up with so far give off "copy my homework" vibes of already existent myths. I know I want this one to center around a supreme being and a war between the faithful and fallen angels regarding the creation of humans, but I'm struggling for it to sound unique and not just a rip-off of the Christian creation story. Is the creation story itself your project, or are you writing/developing it as mythos for another story project?
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Post by Captain Americat on Sept 11, 2023 11:25:47 GMT -5
In all seriousness, does anyone have any advice for coming up with a creation myth? Most of the stuff I've found online hasn't been very helpful, and the ideas I've come up with so far give off "copy my homework" vibes of already existent myths. I know I want this one to center around a supreme being and a war between the faithful and fallen angels regarding the creation of humans, but I'm struggling for it to sound unique and not just a rip-off of the Christian creation story. I don’t think that’s something you can really look up I feel like the story of creation for your story is something that’ll likely hit you in the head and keep you up until you’ve written it all down, haha. It’s not always the sort of thing that just happens on the spot. But in my experience… for things like that, a lot of times it’s not until the rest of the story is more fleshed out that details like an origin story/backstory/creation story are really born. So my advice really is to write more of the story itself and get excited about that and leave the creation story as kind of vague until you have more of an idea of the story and characters and world. Cuz then I feel like you’ll have so much more to work on and maybe more inspiration because maybe there are dynamics or relationships and stuff that you wouldn’t have previously thought of that’ll actually contribute to the creation story itself.
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"Don't frown, someone could be falling in love with your smile." - Teen Wolf
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Post by Captain Americat on Sept 11, 2023 11:30:15 GMT -5
^^’ with the scope creep thing, though, that’s where short stories come in handy. My current is a trilogy (although I also plan other series) and short stories.
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Post by *Ɗαɾƙρσσℓ* on Sept 11, 2023 12:08:21 GMT -5
I've done a lot of theological worldbuilding for a lot of different projects but idk that I have any solid advice for how to go about it unfortunately. In a broad sense it's good to be intentional with what you do borrow from real world religion(s) since being wholly original is pretty much impossible, and to work on interconnecting the faith with the broader social, ecological, and geological setting you've developed, because those specifics can go a long way in making things unique. But that's all p generic stuff and can be applied to other worldbuilding issues as well, it's not really religion specific advice.
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