Character Study : King Tharnas v1 April 27, 2009
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Name : Tharnas
Race : Human
Age : middle age
Class : fighter / level : 10 [King]
Str : 14 / In: 16 / Wi: 17 / Co: 16 / Dx: 12 / Ch: 16
A one-sentence summary of the character’s storyline
- A loving father, and a Wise King
The character’s motivation (what does he/she want abstractly?)
- He wants to maintain Peace and wants his daughter happy
The character’s goal (what does he/she want concretely?)
- Peace and Happiness
The character’s conflict (what prevents him/her from reaching this goal?)
- Responsibility of being the King
- He has to obey protocol
- He knows that Trisha will not be happy with Dormund
- He suspect that Trisha is in love with his General
The character’s epiphany (what will he/she learn, how will he/she change?
- After he will discover Dormund true-face he will understand that being noble by blood doesn’t mean a person is always trustful, honest and respectful
A one-paragraph summary of the character’s story-line
- The King has established a peaceful Kingdom
- He has a powerful General who works for him and maintain his authority
- He his respected by his people because he’s fair and wise
Set of new portraits April 26, 2009
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Character study : General Kassidrin v1 April 26, 2009
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Name : Kassidrin
Race : human
Age : mature 30-40
Class : fighter / level : high 30
Str : 19 / In: 12 / Wi: 16 / Co: 18 / Dx: 12 / Ch: 17
- A one-sentence summary of the character’s storyline
- very powerful warrior who has a big heart but no noble blood
- in love with Princess Trisha
- The character’s motivation (what does he/she want abstractly?)
- he wants peace (having been involved in so many wars, he’s tired of it)
- The character’s goal (what does he/she want concretely?)
- his wish is to build a castle and raise a family
- The character’s conflict (what prevents him/her from reaching this goal?)
- not being noble, he’s often asked to leads his troop in battle against his will
- he has been humiliated by Dormund a couple of times
- The character’s epiphany (what will he/she learn, how will he/she change?
- his large experience in battle will help him to find a way to triumph over his enemy
- A one-paragraph summary of the character’s storyline
- An experienced and skilled fighter with a noble heart (instead of noble blood) – very generous, very brave and strong
Page Design April 26, 2009
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Really cool – I just found this how to step by step design of a comic page. It pushes me in the right direction, a good idea as well, is the “cast” page on this comic – with a little paragraph describing each characters … nice touch.
Finding a method (2) April 26, 2009
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Character study : Prince Dormund v2 April 24, 2009
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I need to tweak this a bit, Dormund in this story is a bad guy “sort of” – but I would like to put more depth into him. So assuming that he was engaged with Trisha – in an alliance made by Trisha’s father (the king) and Dormund’s parent ; and then Trisha felt in love with Kassidrin. Then Dormund’s anger and evilness makes sense.
Furthermore, Dormund doesn’t love Trisha (I keep it that way) – but he feels that she belongs to him rightfully, by the official engagement/alliance made by the authorities – and Dormund is a man of honor, relying on the law and on authority because of his noble rank – he cannot grasp the fact that people might rely on feelings, and emotions instead of respecting the rules.
So the new portrait would be :
- A one-sentence summary of the character’s storyline
- he has no emotion, except cruelty
- he rely on rules and law (he’s a paladin wannabe) and act as a judge
- The character’s motivation (what does he/she want abstractly?)
- his main motivation is getting more power
- The character’s goal (what does he/she want concretely?)
- he wants revenge and get Trisha back whatever the cost
- he despises the people that won’t respect the law and would punish them cruelly
- The character’s conflict (what prevents him/her from reaching this goal?)
- he lacks the courage and heart of a real leader so hide behind law and rules
- he has no emotion – he just blindly wants what is rightfully his
- The character’s epiphany (what will he/she learn, how will he/she change?
- rules can be bent
- flexibility is good
- expressing his emotions and enjoying life is better than living under strict rules
- A one-paragraph summary of the character’s story-line
- Dormund is a rich, cruel, stupidly attached to the very precise word of law that will learn that following the rules blindly can cost a lot of misery for him and people around him
Tag Line : One Liner April 23, 2009
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Quite difficult to summarize in just one sentence the script … my first thought was :
- A betrayed general fights to regain his former love’s affection who’s being tricked by a dark Prince.
but it sounds very much to be only Kassidrin’s point of view of the story
- In a Kingdom under siege, a Princess, a General and a Prince are …. darn … what are they doing actually ? erm … a Princess, a General and a Prince walk into a bar and… No … I really have to works this out !
Character study : Princess Trisha v1 April 23, 2009
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Name : Trisha
Race : human
Age : young 20-30
Class : Mage / level : 14
Str : 7 / In: 18 / Wi: 16 / Co: 11 / Dx: 15 / Ch: 16
- A one-sentence summary of the character’s storyline
- very attractive Princess that has a profound sense of duty
- in love with Kassidrin, she has ended up the relation because of her father request
- The character’s motivation (what does he/she want abstractly?)
- she wants to have a peaceful kingdom
- The character’s goal (what does he/she want concretely?)
- she wants to become queen
- The character’s conflict (what prevents him/her from reaching this goal?)
- her love for Kassidrin and her sense of duty
- The character’s epiphany (what will he/she learn, how will he/she change?
- after her father changed his mind, she may have what she wants
FAQ WordPress : Writing a Book? April 23, 2009
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Today I’m all about organizing and putting things into order and was looking for a way to clarify the blog … while I was trying to understand the cryptic post here > http://support.wordpress.com/write-a-book/
I thought that would be great to have an example – so searching a little I felt lucky then to find all those nice explanations on this other post http://www.lostaddress.org/tag/book-writing the only problem is that all the png files, that would supposedly clarify the whole matter are (404) not found ….
Later I found those 2 blogs : http://tangoourdance.wordpress.com and http://killerserials.wordpress.com/index/ that are pretty much in there own way implementing the method.
So basically I kept the idea of creating an index on the sidebar, and creating a new page called “work in progress” (with sub pages are static by nature that will reflect the evolution of the latest related post ) – the so-called front page will still be “Home” and then I don’t need an index page …
That sounds a bit like there will be redundant entry, yes and no – for example the script’s post in v1 is currently (here) - and this one will stay forever in version 1, because I need to be able to return to this version but the script page (here) will reflect the latest update script version there is. Same apply for the character study post and pages …
Finding a Method April 22, 2009
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Found a very interesting article describing a whole method for writing story here … it’s called the “snowflake method” – and I will try to follow it as much as possible.
It’s great but now that I have a set of rules to follow – I’m unable to write a single thing … I’m afraid to be stuck with the Writer’s block !
Other links that might give some useful hints (will digg them later)
