Dave Dawkins · @golgaloth
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Dave Dawkins · @golgaloth
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What does your character tell their parents they do for a living?

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Dave Dawkins · @golgaloth
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Your character's choice of partner is considered inappropriate. Make that a little more fun. As they say, If you want to tell people the truth, you’d better make them laugh or they’ll kill you. (Shaw, attr.)

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Dave Dawkins · @golgaloth
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Dave Dawkins · @golgaloth
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What crossover would you really want to write, if you could do anything?

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Dave Dawkins · @golgaloth
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What unexpected job does your character have? Perhaps they're a professional bridesmaid, or a pet-food taster.

(ping @futurebird )

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Dave Dawkins · @golgaloth
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Dramatic skies lead to rain. Like Hamlet having some fun with Horatio before the end, what happiness will you allow your characters before their misery?

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Dave Dawkins · @golgaloth
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What's the world decision your character has ever made? No, make it worse than that.

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Dave Dawkins · @golgaloth
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I mean it's easy to write a book that's anit-capitalist, but trying to dig down into the reasons and mechanisms that drive capitalism and work those into the theme of your book, that's more difficult. Hopefully, I'm getting somewhere in the ball park with this book.

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Dave Dawkins · @golgaloth
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Dave Dawkins · @golgaloth
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Your characters wander into an are where social conventions are different. Red means go, waving at someone is considered an insult, Common words of warning or greeting are startlingly different. What shenanigans might ensue?

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Dave Dawkins · @golgaloth
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Remember, the audience can know more than the main character. Sometimes its more fun.

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Dave Dawkins · @golgaloth
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What games does your character like to play with their partner?

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Dave Dawkins · @golgaloth
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Good writing prefers the specific to the general, the clear to the vague, the immediate to the distant - Steve Dee @tinstargames

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Dave Dawkins · @golgaloth
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I'm thinking of writing some more steampunk stuff, so maybe...

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Dave Dawkins · @golgaloth
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What's holding your character back? How might they be forced to confront this?

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Dave Dawkins · @golgaloth
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Notes have been made by my co-author. We had a nice chat on the phone last night (they live in Spain, I live in Australia) and managed to work out a couple of issues with the story. Looking forward to getting the manuscript back with all their notes (being older, she prefers to make notes on a physical copy.) Overall, the book is going well.

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Dave Dawkins · @golgaloth
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Who's you're character's father? Now make it worse.

Baby.

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Dave Dawkins · @golgaloth
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Where does your character keep their weapon?

Also, specificity about certain elements of a character's outfit can help with continuity between scenes. The girl in the green skirt, the gentleman in the purple top hat, the cat with a patch of fur missing.

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Dave Dawkins · @golgaloth
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Your character realises this is all their own fault.

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