University deadlines and early Christmas dinners have slightly interfered with my plans, but I decided it was time to get going again.
In my earlier post I set myself a few goals, including character development ideas, and I have managed to sort this out. I've got my main character, and two of the key supporting characters all planned out, and on top of that I've got a lot of the story of several other characters thought out as well. I've also had a general thought about the general story of my novel and that's all looking good (in my opinion anyway) so hopefully I can continue to refine that over the Christmas period.
My other goal for myself was to determine the names of my main characters. I'm hesitant to reveal too much about my characters at this point, so I'm only going to reveal names and maybe a little bit of information about them and the role that they will play in the story, but I'm going to try and keep as much as possible quite secretive now (I've got to find some way to get people to carry on reading my blog!). I am planning in the next few days to post an update on the general idea of my story, including the genre etc.
So, here they are:
- Thayrin - Main Character
- Gudwyn (sort of the 'wise-old man' with a twist) - very important character
- Jorr (Hardened middle aged companion)
- Aemilia (bit of a wimpy woman, but not quite that simple...)
- Korill (young, new to situation that's he's in) - serves as important introduction to the society within the novel
- Draklan (very important character) - very little will be revealed about him
- There is one more important character, but the name isn't going to be revealed because its gonna be big point in the story.
In other news, I've started reading the follow up to one of my favourite books of all time: The Passage by Justin Cronin. His sequel, The Twelve, has been sat on my shelf for a few weeks and I've been itching to start it for a while, but I've had to keep putting it off. I just couldn't hold off any longer last night though, and I'm glad I finally started reading it.
I'm only 20ish pages in and I was already struggling to put it down. Cronin's books are inspiration for me, so I'm hoping reading that alongside this process will help my writing and ideas as well!
Over the next few weeks I'm going to think about my plot, and start to formalise what's going to happen when. I've got a wonderful OneNote database going with different links for each chapter and a little bit about what's going to happen in each one, so I want to try and really flesh that out with the important bits, then I can start actually writing. I'm not sure whether that's exciting or terrifying!
