#op you're in so much luck because you can see my wild and manic and completely unhinged writing process as i live-workshop a new wip

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I admire your ability to kill off your characters in the planning stages.

Do you have any advice for someone who can't kill theirs?

(I'm just planning but I can't bear to not keep them. It's a curse. And feature creep. :()

If you feel more like talking about your character brainstorming that'd also be lovely.

It would be interesting how other people come up with their ideas.

Have a nice day <3

when you have to start twisting the plot to accommodate a character and it's turning out to be really hard, that's when they should be killed off. sometimes, it's just not meant to be, and hey, you can just toss the character to a pile somewhere and dig them out later.

but yeah, if you're curious about my character creation process, you're actually kinda witnessing it in real time right now. usually it goes something like -- plot point comes to mind that i really like, spend a few days workshopping a setting (scifi, western low fantasy, eastern low fantasy, magic or no magic, etc), and the characters just kind of fall into place from there.

i kind of cheat when it comes to making characters though, since majority of them come from the same schematics and i just let them marinade in my brain for a while to get some more concrete personalities and backstories out of them (see the very distinct brand of trash that all come from proto-vezian). then it's probably another few weeks of rough plotting to trim down or expand the cast, settle on backstories, and attach roles to everyone. it's all very vibes-based, to be honest.