WIP Challenge - Check In, Day 16 - Friday

[the_rck]

Poll #15389

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Today I

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planned
0 (0.0%)

researched
1 (25.0%)

wrote
2 (50.0%)

sent to beta
0 (0.0%)

edited
1 (25.0%)

posted
0 (0.0%)

rested
1 (25.0%)

did something else
3 (75.0%)

The way I feel about that is

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Mean: 3.25 Median: 3 Std. Dev 1.92

Terrible 1		1 (25.0%)
2		1 (25.0%)
3		0 (0.0%)
4		1 (25.0%)
5		0 (0.0%)
6		1 (25.0%)
7		0 (0.0%)
8		0 (0.0%)
9		0 (0.0%)
Wonderful 10		0 (0.0%)

When you write particular characters, do you have a head canon that carries over from story to story? That is, are there details of backstory and characterization that aren't from canon that you always use?

I do, and I don't. Sometimes, for a story to make sense, I need to change a character's backstory so that it's different from one I've used before. Sometimes, it doesn't really matter. I think it's more that I don't necessarily have a solid head canon until something comes up that makes me fit a particular detail into a story. As an example, I recently wrote that a particular character had a girlfriend in high school. There's nothing in any version of him that I've written previously that would say that that couldn't be true. I just didn't know that it was true until it came up in a story, and I'd jettison it if I were writing a story where it didn't make sense.

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[linaewen]

I do have head canon that carries over from story to story. Since my main character actually dies in canon, much of what I write is not canon in that it didn't happen with that character involved. So some of my recurring details are ones I've come up with myself. Most of my stories tend to be linked and it could be said they are all part of a longer story being told in snatches. Now and then I break from my head canon when I write about my main character as he is in "proper" canon before he gets killed off.