| Re: Creating Characters
My characters usually come from either the plot or scene I have in mind. In general, I tend to have a very plot-driven (or plot-directed) was of writing, and I do wish I could get away from that somewhat, do more in the way of character sketches.
One of my main problems is that I usually write in my own scifi universe, which has its own languages, so I have to make up all the names. And I find I'm *terrible* at coming up with a name that really suits a character as well as the fictional language that is supposed to have produced it. I often end up just writing PN1 and PN2 and so on (PN=personal name), but that's prettly clumsy. I've been thinking I should just use normal, current names until I can replace them with something better. |