![]() ![]() For Kelfryn, he wanted so much to be a Dragonrider of old and to have the status of a Dragonrider. Perhaps the most important point is the fact that the character sheet provided a place for internal conflicts–i.e., what is the character struggling with internally. It also made it easier, for me, to come up with a reason why he was doing what he was doing that seemed both rational and in keeping with the character. However, when it came to describing the characters and knowing the history, my mind was able to weave a narrative around them that made them seem (to the editor who bought the story, and hopefully his readers), well, alive in some undefinable way. It really didn’t take that long to write out each one–maybe half an hour to one full hour for each one. Sure, it isn’t much, just spaces where you can write a paragraph or so, but I did that for both of the main characters in the story: Kelfryn (the young man who was a Hawkrider, but wanted to be a Dragonrider), and Scryfe (his mind-bonded hawk, who didn’t understand his rider’s obsession with dragons and dragon eggs). All of the things you might ask yourself when filling out a biography for a character. What do they look like, what is their background, etc. So, on the Character Sheets, there is a place to fill out all of the external characteristics of the character. ![]() One of the things that the character sheets forced me to do was to think about my characters from the external and the internal External One of the reasons why I believe that it was so successful is that even though I had the plot for the story in mind when writing the story, I also used (for the only time time since I restarted my writing “career” by buying Storymill and then later Scrivener) the Character Sketch Template Sheets provided by Scrivener. So far, I have only sold one story on the first try: Dragonhawk. ![]()
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