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How Do You Balance Intensity and Inexperience of a Character?

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Dresdenus Prime:
Quantus - Awesome suggestions my friend. I think that my character almost has a happy medium between your first and third points. I like the idea of suggestion 2 as well! Very helpful!  :D

Aminar - You make some great points. After reviewing, reinterpreting, editting, rewriting the same story for almost a year now it's bound to make me feel drained. I still love where it's going though. Even today I jotted down a couple pages worth of notes for future projects in this story world. Also you pretty much read my mind with the idea that his powers sort of manifest themselves at times without him trying. It makes sense for who he is and what he can do!

Breandan - Some of the things you mentioned are funny because of the situation my character is in. In the very first chapter he's on a stakeout. He's never done it before, he has no idea what he's doing, but he doesnt have a group of people in contact with him or even a partner next to him to make him feel flustered. Being alone he's able to concentrate and do a pretty good job at tailing his target. I always loved the saying that people are dumb but a person is smart, no offense to you people  ;D

Jeno - That is great advice, and I completely agree with you. My biggest issue with my book was I didn't want to spell everything out in the first couple chapters, but what I had so far just felt too slow and it worried me that readers/agents may feel it was a weaker beginning. My new chapters 1-2 aren't in any way "throw the hero into a battlefield and hope he can last long enough" exciting, but it has a bit more suspense and action. Previously my book went I think 5 or 6 chapters before any real action revealed itself. My wife "claims" she's being unbiased when she reads it and she was very entertained by it. So we'll see what happens.  ;)

Thanks guys. You all make great points. I think a topic like this is important for a new writer in how to find a good balance of character and plot.  8)

Aminar:
Glad to be of help/encouragement.

the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:

--- Quote from: Dresdenus Prime on August 26, 2011, 01:42:04 AM ---Aminar - You make some great points. After reviewing, reinterpreting, editting, rewriting the same story for almost a year now it's bound to make me feel drained.

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Just wait until you hit year ten on the same story, or year fifteen.

Breandan:
*coughtwentycough*


What? I procrastinated a lot in my youth :D

Dresdenus Prime:

--- Quote from: the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh on August 26, 2011, 04:08:33 AM ---Just wait until you hit year ten on the same story, or year fifteen.

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Hopefully ten years from now it will be in the same universe but a different story  ;D We'll see

I do have other projects I plan on working on as well. That way if I grow too stressed over this story I'll move to another temporarily. With some of the ideas I've had I'm suprised that I'm able to focus on just one!  :D

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