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Old 26th May 2005, 02:03 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Re: Character development

There was once a Star Trek NextGen episode, where Picard refers to an archaoelogical object, that is a whole containing many figures - a metaphor for how we are like one person composed of many voices.

With characters, I think it's important to try and develop those voices - it's like experimenting with different forms of yourself, determined by such things as mood.

Perhaps it might be worth writing about the same mundane thing from different moods you have - then if you can find any differences, ask why that mood has those differences, and see if you can develop that deeper.

Does that help at all??
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