WIP Challenge - Check In Day 31 - Sunday

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Today I

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planned
1 (100.0%)

researched
0 (0.0%)

wrote
0 (0.0%)

sent to beta
0 (0.0%)

edited
0 (0.0%)

posted
0 (0.0%)

rested
0 (0.0%)

did something else
1 (100.0%)

The way I feel about that is

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Terrible 1		0 (0.0%)
2		0 (0.0%)
3		0 (0.0%)
4		0 (0.0%)
5		0 (0.0%)
6		0 (0.0%)
7		0 (0.0%)
8		0 (0.0%)
9		0 (0.0%)
Wonderful 10		0 (0.0%)

How do you like to develop characters? Do you put a lot of time into figuring out details about them that won't appear in the story or do you wait until you need to know something before you decide it?

I tend to take the middle road. There are things I know about characters in a general way. I may not have consciously decided that those things are true, but those things are fundamental enough to the character that I can't imagine them not being true. There other details that I don't decide until they become relevant. If I'm doing it right, however, those details feel inevitable. That is, by the time I make the decision, it doesn't feel like a decision.