Character sheet bildungsroman
LARP writing process post/discussion starter.*
So I am currently in the mad throes of Writing A Game In Way Too Much Of A Hurry--in other words, trying to crank out a couple of character sheets a day, that sort of madness. And I tend to be a pretty, um, thorough writer these days. Meaning wordy. Meaning random other shit.
I find it very difficult to start a character sheet at any point in the character's life other than earliest childhood memory.
(Admittedly, a bit of this may be due to the first sheet for the first game I wrote--Celena Schezar in The Treaty of Pallas--starting in early childhood for very valid reasons, as her toddler memories are plot-relevant. Probably some early conditioning that didn't help.)
This is viable for young characters. Teenagers. Even if their childhood isn't directly plot-relevant, it's still very near and dear to their consciousnesses, especially if they lost a parent or something. No, where I have a problem with this is with older characters. Parents with children of their own, for example. I have to sit hard on my urge to go into every detail of their lives, which could make twenty-page sheets full of irrelevant information. But I do badly with summaries. And.
Ayy.
Any of my fellow LARP-writers out there have this sort of problem? The urge to make character sheets into bildungsroman? How do you deal with it, and go about pruning sheets?
Also, my brain hurts from writing overload. But that's neither here nor there.
* Because, honestly, with the amount of different crap I use this journal for? I'm beginning to think I should label posts like that. -.-;;
So I am currently in the mad throes of Writing A Game In Way Too Much Of A Hurry--in other words, trying to crank out a couple of character sheets a day, that sort of madness. And I tend to be a pretty, um, thorough writer these days. Meaning wordy. Meaning random other shit.
I find it very difficult to start a character sheet at any point in the character's life other than earliest childhood memory.
(Admittedly, a bit of this may be due to the first sheet for the first game I wrote--Celena Schezar in The Treaty of Pallas--starting in early childhood for very valid reasons, as her toddler memories are plot-relevant. Probably some early conditioning that didn't help.)
This is viable for young characters. Teenagers. Even if their childhood isn't directly plot-relevant, it's still very near and dear to their consciousnesses, especially if they lost a parent or something. No, where I have a problem with this is with older characters. Parents with children of their own, for example. I have to sit hard on my urge to go into every detail of their lives, which could make twenty-page sheets full of irrelevant information. But I do badly with summaries. And.
Ayy.
Any of my fellow LARP-writers out there have this sort of problem? The urge to make character sheets into bildungsroman? How do you deal with it, and go about pruning sheets?
Also, my brain hurts from writing overload. But that's neither here nor there.
* Because, honestly, with the amount of different crap I use this journal for? I'm beginning to think I should label posts like that. -.-;;