Too Many Ideas - Archive for the ‘My Stuff’ Category
Characters on the Couch (Part 16)
Thursday, November 2nd, 2006This Follows on from: Characters on the Couch (Part 15). The first part can be found at: Characters on the Couch (Part 1). Five Steps to Use Your Character’s Archetype This simple process may help you use the idea of archetypes when writing a character. Step 1: Search for your Character’s Soul Think about your […]
Fiddling with Vue Python
Tuesday, October 31st, 2006Spent the evening playing round with some ideas I’d had for using Vue’s python. Nothing directly to show or share just some stuff that will hopefully be of use in the future.
Death Scene Monologue and Keats
Monday, October 30th, 2006In the process of bumping off a minor character in the Fairy Tale Noir I decided he deserved a bit of a monologue before he goes. However he’s both a bit of a geek and has a bad habbit of wandering way off the point. So he wanders and I needed to do some research […]
Characters on the Couch (Part 15)
Wednesday, October 25th, 2006This Follows on from: Characters on the Couch (Part 14). The first part can be found at: Characters on the Couch (Part 1). So why use Archetypes? As a writer there are several advantages to using archetypes when designing characters. Archetypes give characters personalities that readers can easily identify with. They make characters memorable by […]
Never let you're Characters off the Leash
Monday, October 23rd, 2006So I’ve been crafting the info dump in the Noir Fairy Tale. It was coming together pretty easily. The main character dumping info is a bit of a scatter brain. He keeps wandering off the point, shinning light into bits of the story he isn’t being asked about. Then out of nowhere he showed speaks […]
Too Info Dump or Not to Info Dump that is the question
Monday, October 23rd, 2006I’ve been struggling to decide how to handle the next step in the Noir Fairy Tail. The main character has made a trip from China to Britain to enlist an experts help. I could have the expert mysterious solve the heroes problem so he can carry on with the action in what would be a […]
impworks Smarty Migration Done
Thursday, October 19th, 2006I’ve finished updating my impworks website tonight to move it to using smarty templates. I’ve cut a few pages I wasn’t happy with. Now I can start adding new content again and a some new features too.
Almost Smarty
Sunday, October 15th, 2006Translated almost all of the remaining pages on my impworks site to smarty templates today. Just a couple of little tweaks left to make to the templates and a couple of pages that have special features to do. Then I can start adding new pages and some bits that will be easier with the smarty […]
Writing the Boring Bits
Saturday, October 14th, 2006Writing the mundane bits of a story seem to be the hardest parts. I used to find avoiding info dumps hard work or dialogue but now it’s the mundane experiences the character goes through I’m finding the hardest parts to write. Trying to strike the right balance of brevity with enough detail that the reader […]
Fairy Tale Noir: Confabulation
Thursday, October 12th, 2006Last weeks New Scientist had an article about Confabulation, a memory disorder which cause sufferers to produce false memories. These memories can be mundane or exotic. The hero in my Noir Fairy Tale already has a period of amnesia in his back story, a condition frequently found in both noir and folklaw involving the folk. […]