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Feb. 14th, 2005 10:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
truepennyI think (she said cautiously) that I've found the answer to the character/world-building problem I was bitching about on Saturday.
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shivasaavik asked in the comments if I found I had to write the nonviewpoint characters to get their motivations worked out, to which my answer was yes and no. I don't, mercifully, have to write the actual scenes, but I have found that writing out what I'm thinking is frequently the only way to get anything moving--my theory is that it gives me the illusion of a dialogue. (Actual dialogue with matociquala also helps greatly, but there comes a point in every problem-solving process where it's really just down to me and my backbrain, two falls out of three.) This time, it manifested in the form of a Q&A session--and devolved slighlty into a press conference, with the reporters heckling the poor spokesperson and asking three questions at once.
But like I said, I think it worked.
shivasaavik asked in the comments if I found I had to write the nonviewpoint characters to get their motivations worked out, to which my answer was yes and no. I don't, mercifully, have to write the actual scenes, but I have found that writing out what I'm thinking is frequently the only way to get anything moving--my theory is that it gives me the illusion of a dialogue. (Actual dialogue with matociquala also helps greatly, but there comes a point in every problem-solving process where it's really just down to me and my backbrain, two falls out of three.) This time, it manifested in the form of a Q&A session--and devolved slighlty into a press conference, with the reporters heckling the poor spokesperson and asking three questions at once.But like I said, I think it worked.
