WIP Challenge - Check In Day 12 - Monday

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Poll #16348

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Today I

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planned
3 (42.9%)

researched
0 (0.0%)

wrote
3 (42.9%)

sent to beta
0 (0.0%)

edited
2 (28.6%)

posted
0 (0.0%)

rested
2 (28.6%)

did something else
1 (14.3%)

The way I feel about that is

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Mean: 6.29 Median: 5 Std. Dev 2.31

Terrible 1		0 (0.0%)
2		0 (0.0%)
3		1 (14.3%)
4		0 (0.0%)
5		3 (42.9%)
6		0 (0.0%)
7		1 (14.3%)
8		0 (0.0%)
9		1 (14.3%)
Wonderful 10		1 (14.3%)

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 be a seat of the pantser about character development as well as about plot, at least when I'm creating original characters. I generally know what I need them to do, but I have to discover, through writing, why they do it. Sometimes, that leads to them doing something different than what I had in mind. It's always surprising. I often discover that I know things about them that I hadn't consciously planned.