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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Balaam Xumucane: [QB] You've got a well thought out character there. I like him. You might try to come at the other characters in a similar way. Think about the elements you'd like to explore in the series: sex, race, disabilities, economics, politics, psychologies etc. Make up some treatments for some stories and arcs. One paragraph or a page or so with the basics of what you want the episode(s) to say. Frame your characters around these. When I was working up the characters for my series, I couldn't come up with names at first, I only knew the jobs they'd have to do on the ship. So I just called them their jobs. (There was an awful lot of "Gunner, can we hit that target?", "Nav, what is the distance to that moon?": It was pretty silly, but it let the stories come out, and made it easy to do a search and replace later.) As the plots for the first three stories played out, the details of the lives of these people fell into place. It was great. I find that as you get to know the characters, their dialogue becomes easier and easier to write. As they become easier to write, certain names will fit them, others won't. Eventually, you come out with some farily solid characters. Give it a couple drafts, maybe have your friends read parts to get new ideas, and you'll start having some pretty well rounded characters. You've got great ideas. I like the way this series sounds. It's a little down to earth ([i]HA! I kill me![/i]) for my tastes, but I think if you can get some good characters and good stories in there, you could have a real winner. Keep us informed of your progress. ps-RE: the 'Stewart!' exclamation early was implying that it was, in fact, Stewart who had gone mad and started killing his crewmates in the hypothetical juice-up. It's a dumb idea, but I love stories with those kinds of twists. Nevermind. Please don't pay any attention to me. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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