#Wordweavers 3 Apr '4. Choose a character to invite to a party. What kind of party is it? Does it have special rules (dress code, bring alcohol, etc.)?'
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Mr Ralph Collins (aged 36) is the popular science teacher at Broadland Park High School. His personal passion is the solar system, and if you can get him talking about space travel there’s a chance that he could run out of time to teach an actual science lesson. He knows that his students try this … <a href="https://www.slenderwolf.com/novels/characters/mr-collins/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Book 2 Mr Collins"</span></a>
#Wordweavers 3 Apr '4. Choose a character to invite to a party. What kind of party is it? Does it have special rules (dress code, bring alcohol, etc.)?'
Mr Collins
[Yay! Insert rapturous round of applause here.]
Every year when the Noble Coliseum hosts the pyjama party he turns up in his pyjamas!
You have to bring your pyjamas and your teddy bear!
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#WordWeavers 3: For which characters do you come up with a backstory?
Almost all of them. If they don't have a backstory, they usually don't need to be named in the narrative.
#WordWeavers 3: For which characters do you come up with a backstory?
This question makes me realize that I write a lot of “origin stories.” So, like… all of them to a degree.
It usually feels much more like my characters tell me their backstory than I come up with one.
#WordWeavers Apr 3: For which characters do you come up with a backstory?
Almost every character important enough to get a name gets a backstory too. Obviously some are more detailed than others, and more often than not, they don’t make it into the final text; “show your working” is fine for mathematics, less crucial for fiction. (But *I* know them, and that, I think, is the important thing.)
Since NYT is not immune to #LLM - I asked the free version of Gemini to write a NYT-style book review of "A New Faith" and it was completely unsurprisingly vapid stuff getting some things right and many wrong. And in the quest to keep me hooked, it wrote nice things about the book which do show why it can lead to psychosis. This stuff is just not good!!
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#WordWeavers day 3: For which characters do you come up with a backstory?
Pretty much everyone with more than a fleeting appearance or bit part. My MCs and villains get pretty thorough backstories; my SCs also get backstories, though of varying elaborateness depending on how much we see them and how central they are to the story.
#WordWeavers 3 backstories
When I say characters merge: there have been a few times when things clicked into place, so I realized that if a character who, say, handed over a message in chapter 3 was the same person who in chapter 10 performed some minor action and had a line or two, it revealed something interesting about the world without needing info dumps.
I'm being vague partly to avoid spoilers and partly because I remember the joy of those moments, but not necessarily who they involved.
#WordWeavers Day 3. For which characters do you come up with a backstory?
Usually just the main characters. Though a secondary character just might sneak up and demand one. (Captain Trace did just that. 😂 )
Scott Rochester
Julie Liddell Whitehead
EmpyClaw
Sandra Bond
TinJar
Kagan MacTane (he/him)
Elyse M Grasso
kit lecter 🦇👹
Sifaseven