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Nov. 16th, 2008 12:05 amSo, while sitting here bleeding and not feeling like doing any work, on account of bleeding, I instead spent today doing more work on Singleton, fleshing out the characters beyond a few words and physical description.
It seems that this is going to be a story that starts with the characters more or less randomly traveling together, for different reasons. (I prefer this to a band of characters gathered to defeat the Dark Lord, because there'd better be a damn' good reason they don't have an army, or why it's them, and then we venture in Speshul territory.) Also, working out why they're traveling hangs all these plot threads for me to tug on. Apparently, someone is quite likely plotting revolution. And I have no idea yet what happened to someone else's brother, or what a third character is going to investigate, but I can't wait to find out!
And character flaws have arisen as well. I have a character with vivid visual delusions, which although he knows they're false, that doesn't help much when they won't go away. Also I have a character who's been grieving his dead twin for twelve years, with whom he had a remarkably unhealthy codependence thing going on such that he never formed real emotional connections with anyone else. Also I have characters who have been expelled from military academy, one for being funny at the wrong times, irreverent, always asking why, and the other for being thin-skinned to insult and reacting by sulks.
Not to mention, some serious worldbuilding. I now know a lot more about magic, the academy system, what it can and can't do, how people with strong magics but no money get taught, and then random things on crime, inheritance law, that the sterility rate is high (to make up out-of-text for the fact that almost all births are twins), how healing magic works, and a pile of other random information.
Somehow, I don't think I'll have a problem filling this story with events when I finally sit down to right it. I don't even have the main plot yet!
It seems that this is going to be a story that starts with the characters more or less randomly traveling together, for different reasons. (I prefer this to a band of characters gathered to defeat the Dark Lord, because there'd better be a damn' good reason they don't have an army, or why it's them, and then we venture in Speshul territory.) Also, working out why they're traveling hangs all these plot threads for me to tug on. Apparently, someone is quite likely plotting revolution. And I have no idea yet what happened to someone else's brother, or what a third character is going to investigate, but I can't wait to find out!
And character flaws have arisen as well. I have a character with vivid visual delusions, which although he knows they're false, that doesn't help much when they won't go away. Also I have a character who's been grieving his dead twin for twelve years, with whom he had a remarkably unhealthy codependence thing going on such that he never formed real emotional connections with anyone else. Also I have characters who have been expelled from military academy, one for being funny at the wrong times, irreverent, always asking why, and the other for being thin-skinned to insult and reacting by sulks.
Not to mention, some serious worldbuilding. I now know a lot more about magic, the academy system, what it can and can't do, how people with strong magics but no money get taught, and then random things on crime, inheritance law, that the sterility rate is high (to make up out-of-text for the fact that almost all births are twins), how healing magic works, and a pile of other random information.
Somehow, I don't think I'll have a problem filling this story with events when I finally sit down to right it. I don't even have the main plot yet!
