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Share with us your character's obituary as it might appear in a newspaper (or equivalent publication/etc), after his or her death.Haylee is actually in the interesting predicament of being a vampire, which means that, at some point in the future, she’ll have to actually plan out her death in the ‘human’ community. While she’s not the most ( Read more... )

What's the most amount of research you've ever done for a character or a story? Did you ever actually get the story/relevant bits written, or did the research wind up overwhelming you?I’ve done different amounts of research for different characters over the years. For one, I’ve done a good bit of research on a particular branch of Judaism called ( Read more... )

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Examine your character's last few prompt responses.

What new information have you learned about your character from their answers?I think that Haylee suffers from severe co-dependency issues that I really didn’t have in mind for her when I first created her. I don’t mind it, as I think it gives a good flavor to a character who, as a human, hated ( Read more... )

A bit of writing advice I was given once is that the single most integral thing you have to know about your character is what they really, truly, want in life. There's always something, no matter how powerful a character may be, how wealthy, or how established in their field, career, personal relationships, or family. A character who has no want is ( Read more... )