Today I sat down to start writing my new idea (the old one having become something of a struggle, which I’m going to come back to when it feels a little fresher), and immediately realised I’d come up with the two main characters, but not the supporting characters I’d need to make their lives actually work. I therefore spent at least an hour on The Sims 4, making some characters for them to play with. A surprising amount of trivia about those characters came to me in that hour, so that’s good. I really need to revisit my mains before writing tomorrow, because I feel like I now know more about the secondary characters!
Anyway, I sat down to start writing my new idea a second time, and wrote 576 words. It’s not as much as I’d like, but it’s definitely better than recent days (straight 0s). I’m now counting this novel’s words towards Camp NaNo, so that’s good.
Apologies for yesterday, by the way – I was surprisingly exhausted by playing hours of football with a very persistent collie and being cuddled by a wriggly springer puppy and went to be without writing a word when I got home. Oh well!
Total written today: 576 words.
Camp NaNo total so far: 3663 words.
April total so far: 8198 words.
2015 total so far: 76750 words.
Talk to you tomorrow!
Eleanor Musgrove 
You use The Sims to help build characters?!
What a GREAT idea! I’ve often put my characters into the game but never new ones. Ooo! ^_^
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I do! I actually did a bit of a tutorial thing about it, part one of which is here: https://eamusgrove.wordpress.com/2015/01/14/visualising-your-characters-part-one-generating-a-character/ It’s especially good for fleshing out characters as you can give them traits that aren’t relevant to the story (i.e. a warrior that never picks up after himself, or a minor character librarian who’s never seen outside of work but who happens to be a bodybuilding enthusiast)
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Hehee, awesome.
Oh! Also, we’re doing a podcast on characterisation soon. Would you mind if I talked about your tutorials? I think it would be a fascinating link up for listeners. 🙂
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Oh, not at all! Go for it. I’ll stick a link up when it goes up, too, just let me know.
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Cheers ears. 🙂
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