Introduction to Simon
How do you plan to introduce this character in your story? How do you want the audience to respond to your character in that first scene? Which traits are you going to show immediately? Pick three-- you can't bombard the reader with all of them at once, after all. Try to answer in ten sentences or less (and no cheating! Keep the point from being lost in the details).
When the reader first meets Simon, he is watching a concert video in his living room. He mimes the motions of the video - himself, as a younger man, singing his hit song with his band Simon Said. Until the phone rings, and distracts him. He hurts his back in the process of getting up, and limps to the phone. It's Battle of the Hasbeen Stars, who wants to know if he'll go for a cage match with the guy who played the Wild Boy in a short lived series called Jungle Tales back in 84. He hangs up, angrily insisting that he has a very active career, thank you very much. He was just performing right now, in fact, when they interpreted. He limps back to the couch, disgruntled, and starts the video again. The traits I want to express are that he's proud, delusional about his fall-from-fame, and living in the past.
When the reader first meets Simon, he is watching a concert video in his living room. He mimes the motions of the video - himself, as a younger man, singing his hit song with his band Simon Said. Until the phone rings, and distracts him. He hurts his back in the process of getting up, and limps to the phone. It's Battle of the Hasbeen Stars, who wants to know if he'll go for a cage match with the guy who played the Wild Boy in a short lived series called Jungle Tales back in 84. He hangs up, angrily insisting that he has a very active career, thank you very much. He was just performing right now, in fact, when they interpreted. He limps back to the couch, disgruntled, and starts the video again. The traits I want to express are that he's proud, delusional about his fall-from-fame, and living in the past.