Character Development Thread--Discussion

Sorry for no post yet, had to double down on some homework. Starting one now, and I'm hoping it won't take long.

Agh, blagh, dammit, it's getting hard to stay awake. Sorry, I've been sleeping earlier lately...

edited 19th Oct '16 8:15:50 PM by Ryuhza

Have fun!

Kind of blew it when I came to posting, again. I'll try tomorrow.

i'm done with my trope page. it's pathetic right now but with a few sparing up, it'll look exactly like a trope page.

edited 20th Oct '16 7:37:56 AM by ewolf2015

Having troubles getting an Arthur post together, Snowy? Frontier's kind of winding down now, are you still looking at getting in some development work for him?

MoC, if you're really confused by the location tags, I've been changing mine based on where the characters are. They started at a cave, which led to an underground/subterranean shelter, which led into an old mine, and now they're outside and the old mine's entrance is the nearest landmark.

The way I personally do these tags is:

[Generalized Location ~ More Specific Location (Even More Specific ^* If I feel it's necessary. Good for interiors or slightly separated groups)] (Who I'm Writing for,^* ordered alphabetically Other Characters^* also ordered alphabetically)



On a different note, Herr Blackfire, chance of a post soon-ish-er-eth?

edited 20th Oct '16 1:43:05 PM by Ryuhza

Maybe possibly today or tomorrow. Just got done with midterms, but that doesn't mean I'm free.

Sounds good! Just had a nice midterm myself. Helped offset a not-so-good test from last week. Got one more this coming week before I'm out of the fire completely though.

Hey should I post my character descriptions in the help with English thread? I'm not confident enough on my grammar.

@CG: I was planning to put that Frontier post up this weekend. Everything's been reworked again because I know we're already working on another thread, so what I have planned now should take up very little time to wrap up, maybe just 3-5 post cycles.

edited 20th Oct '16 3:34:13 PM by SnowyFoxes

It's up to you, really. The character bios don't really matter that much in the grand scheme of things compared to the way you characterize them in the thread themselves.

like how? with a establishing character moment.

Well, everything your character does should show off who they are as a person, which is more valuable than just telling us what they're like.

Oh ok, lol I was lost for a second.

@Snowy: Good to know you're not so horribly swamped for the moment! Thanks for the update.

@Ewolf: If it's the grammar you're worried about, you could probably show it to us. The Help With English thread is used in practice more for helping people who are edit-banned. But when you talk about an Establishing Character Moment, are you referring to depicting your character in-thread?

We can help you with the grammar in the profile, since it's just a sentence or so, but the actual content of the mini-profile that goes on the trope page doesn't really matter that much- it's just for convenience.

What Collen's referring to when she mentions characterizing a character in-thread is just what they do. Like, on a Friday night, would they go clubbing with friends, have a night in with friends playing video games or watching Netflix, take their significant other on a date, stay in by themselves doing whatever pleases them or wishing they had someone to go out with/the money to go out, etc. That kind of thing. Don't overthink it.

edited 20th Oct '16 3:31:24 PM by CrystalGlacia

Getting to a post... yes yes...

That's my refrain as well.

I'm finally less busy now, so I should be able to make a post for Dream sometime soon.

How can a character who starts as prideful and full of themselves change to being more humble and selfless without a Break the Haughty moment? I'm trying to write a character who is powerful and looks down on humans, but eventually comes to care about them enough to sacrifice his very being to sustain a world for humanity for however long he can do this.

As mentioned in the first post, this thread isn't for discussing character development. This thread is for discussing the Character Development Thread. I would recommend asking your question in the Writer's Block Daily thread.

I did, actually. Nobody's simply replied to it yet.

Well, this is still not the place to discuss such things. If nobody's replied to your idea, well, then all I can suggest is to mention having no replies in the thread you originally posted in. If you're unsure about a character concept though, you're always welcome to participate in the Character Development Threads to test them out!

@Kkutwar: I agree with Eterna on the scattered writing bit for your Eldritch characters. Plus this may simply be because of how the CDT's are, but you mention a lot of names and concepts and such in your posts that you don't really elaborate on, which leaves things a little confusing to read. Same goes for the "voices in the head" bit, as it seems mixed in with the rest of the writing - treating the voices more like quotes but in italics could be a good way to distinguish those. As for Vita Exosso and her sister, well, that segways into one thing I really like about the CDT's: the potential for unexpected reactions triggering development you may not have thought of before. So far she comes across to me as a snarky Mama Bear who likes to mock and toy with people, which I think is pretty interesting. I think Noire and the Midnight Stitcher could use a little bit more personality - Noire so far seems to have thus far just played the part of Ms. Exposition, and I would've liked to see some more emphasis on how the Midnight Stitcher's eye colour relates to his emotion/attitude towards things and perhaps how he sees himself, given he's been called an imperfect abomination and such.

Interestingly enough, I've been wondering a similar thing about my characters and how they are viewed by other people. I try to put a lot of work into developing my characters further - experimenting with how they react to things and to each other, coming up with backstory, etc. Especially Sinistrina and Friedrich (the other Friedrich) because I'll be writing their story just over a week from now, although the latter hasn't been around for long.

I'll be working on posts real soon...

That doesn't mean you should then ask it in another thread where it's totally off-topic.

Edit: Huh. Weird. I didn't see the above post even though it was seven minutes ago.

edited 22nd Oct '16 3:58:46 PM by nrjxll

How do you write a god who has lost everything come across as still having a sense of pride?