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writethisfanficOpen to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 7
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
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.
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