Hey all,
First, let me fill you in about the newly applied structure to this blog. From now on, it will feature two updates a week, on Wednesday and Saturday. This is a (rather poor) effort of myself to up the amount of work I put into this project. The Wednesday entries will focus on the writing process (Wri is for writing), while the Saturday entries will give information on the story and its characters (No stands for novel). So, here’s the first Wri Wednesday update!
If you’ve been keeping up, you’ll have noticed my latest entry included a drawing of the character introduced. I didn’t do this just to spruce up the blog, but rather to help me visualise what this character looks like and, by extent, who he is.
My mind is a very visually-oriented one. If I can see something, it becomes that much more real. Having a visual aid for these characters helps me shape them. One character was even drawn before I knew anything else about her (except her name). I figured out what her power was, because of the way the wears her hair. The rest of her personality fell right into place after that. Her looks influenced her personality greatly.
I think it was either JRR Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings) or CS Lewis (The Chronicles of Narnia) who said that in order to write about a fictional place and have it be believable, you need to have a map drawn out. I agree with this statement and fully intend to draw a map linking all the places I’m likely to use or refer to in my novel. This will be of great assistance, as the world itself will become more clearly defined and I’ll be able to go into much more detail about the surroundings.
As for the rest of the novel; it’s coming along quite nicely. I’ve finally figured out who the antagonist(s) is/are, which also inspired a lot more of the background of the powers. I’m still nowhere near the stage I should be to start the actual writing of the novel, but with the time I’ve got left, I’d say I’m pretty much on track. Here’s hoping I’ll stay on it!
TTFN.
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