Ink In My Veins discussion

I know that creating characters can be kind of tricky, so if you need help with anything - from a personality to a name to an appearance - don't hesitate to ask!

Also, Writers Against Cardboard Characters is a great place to go for charcter development!

Here's a link to the above comment.

http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/2...

: ) I need to be more active. My alerts died and I stopped going on a lot of GR groups.

Yes, you do. :P I did that for about a month or two because of school and deleated myself from alot of the groups I wasn't very active in.

You left WWAC?!

No! Not that group! Just a bunch of others that were really random and I didn't participate much in.

oh ok. I need to go participate more in WWAC... I'll do that. *wanders off*

Writers Against Cardboard Characters is a really great group. =D

It is.

Hmm. Maybe I should check that group out. Although, I'm afraid I might just neglect it.

: P join anyway

It's a very helpful group. You should join :)

: )

I was a mod, and then I got really busy and unable to do anything.

*sigh* Niki Niki Niki.

Character help. What do we do here? Most of our stories (not including "the Ninjas") have not been read a lot.

Okay, I need a little help deciding something. The main character in a new story of mine has a little sister, Kassandra, with Asperger's Syndrome. Usually, people with Asperger's have something they obsess over, like constellations or flowers or things like that. What I need help with is figuring out what Kassandra's little obsession is. Any ideas? =]

Ummm...words!

Like the origins and the meanings and stuff. Really weird ones.

Yes, obscure words!

We are so writers...

That sounds like her. Thanks!

Hey, tell me if this name sounds familiar:

Rhyll.

I can never tell if I'm being original when I make up a name, or if I'm just repeating one that's in my subconscious...

Oh!
And this name too...
Vaena

Sounds cool to me. XD

Haha, thanks.
Rhyll is original.
I've never heard it.

YES! I'M ORIGINAL! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! *runs off cackling into the night*

Sorry 'bout that. Dusk brings out the hyper side of Maxy.

♥ Regan ♥ wrote: "Haha, thanks.
Rhyll is original.
I've never heard it."

Our puppy's name is Rhylo. XD Ignore me.

Ilana wrote: "♥ Regan ♥ wrote: "Haha, thanks.
Rhyll is original.
I've never heard it."

Our puppy's name is Rhylo. XD Ignore me."

One of my teachers had a dog named Phydeaux. It sounds like Fido, but... yeah. I love cool dog names. Our last dog was JamesSirBensonMum. It makes no sense unless you've seen the movie "Murder by Death".

Anyway. Thanks! I hope it will stay original for a while. Ehehe.

XD

This group is dying. =[

Uh, character help...

Agh. I'm just worried about my new main character becoming a Mary Sue. A lot of her personality is ending up like mine, and I don't have much of a personality at this point... Gack.

Out of curiosity, What's a Mary Sue? I never really got the idea of that.

And I agree, the group is practically already dead.

It's pretty much a cardboard character. like, nothing bad happens to her or she has no flaws.

A Mary Sue (or Gary Stu, for males) is one of those characters that just isn't well-rounded. She is gorgeous, adorable, little-miss-perfect, loved by everyone, distressed by all the people that are in love with her, either messes everything up and is immediately forgiven or does everything right on the first try, etc. The polar opposite of these things can make a character Mary-Sue ish as well.

Fear the dreaded anti-Sue, for she does nothing right and no one likes her, but she still gets to be whatever the author wants her to be. *shivers*

Indeed. There's definitely such a thing as being too Anti-Sue.

It gets kind of annoying sometimes, wondering if my character is one or not. But then I look at some of the stuff that published authors get away with and stop worrying about it.

I'm starting a new idea and I really need an amazing name for one of my main characters. I need a name for an angel. I tried looking through actual angel names and even through some saint's names, but nothing pops out. I would really appreciate some ideas.

An angel? http://www.angelsghosts.com/angel_names Here's a link for angel names- male and female. :) Good luck!

Thanks:)

I like the angel names link. If I was young enough to have kids, they might end up with something from that list! :)

Okay, I'm in the progress of writing a story called Hiding Beyond Deception. The main character boy, Will, is just so boring. I have it where i switch perspectives and his is the first and it's sooooooooo short. The other characters perspective is so interesting that I had to leave a part of it out because it's so long! I need some help to liven Will up... Any suggestions???? Oh, yeah and he's a werewolf.... i fizgot to mention that one....

Give Will an outrageous quirk or obsessive-compulsive tendency that interferes with the narrative sometimes? Enough to add some humor? And/or try to make sure he's different enough from the other character--maybe take a trait the second character has and give the polar opposite of it to Will.

Speaking of which, Kae is too much like me. It happened unintentionally. Is there some distinctive trait you guys have noticed about me that I could use by giving the opposite of it to Kae?

I don't think it's bad to have a character similar to you, as long as she doesn't become Sue-ish. One of my strongest, most complex characters is really just me with a different name. I didn't realize as I was writing her, but when I was done, it was really clear.

I'm going to take your word because I love your writing. I just got paranoid about it because a teacher read some of my notebook and said "Is this an autobiography?". (Yes, of course. This is about the time in my life when I was locked in a room as a science experiment.)

Which character is it, out of curiosity?

Amelia, from my play Lockdown. I haven't posted it, but I can send it to you if you want to read it.

I would love to read it. :)

I'm posting here a lot. Ehe.

So, I have this character named Ika, the narrator in a new story idea of mine. These two islands are in the middle of a war, and her side sends her as a sacrifice to the other island with this illness that's meant to weaken or kill off the opposing forces. She has dirty-blonde hair to the middle of her back, green/brown eyes, and she's about 5'5". Her main skills are dodging and counter-attacking because of her small stature. She's rather skeptical and hesitant to trust when it comes to human beings.

Why do I tell you all this? Well, for the life of me, I can't figure out how old she is, and I thought this info would help. I could see her anywhere from 16 to 25.

I can see her being 17 or 18 but I think that's just cuz i'm 17 and i like reading stories with character around my age. Let me know what you decide on. :)