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Just wondering what technique everybody uses. I generally create the male and female lead first. Come up with the ending to the book so I can know where I'm going. Figure out some really cool scenes, what I call my action set pieces. Then I set the two main leads out into the wild and figure out as I type how they get from set piece to set piece and then to the end. I call those in between moments my character building moments, because that's when we learn who they are.
It's during those times that I create new characters on the fly who then make up the supporting cast.
The reason I asked this question is because it was during one of those "in between" moments where I invented a guy who should have been in the book no longer then five or six pages. I fell in love with him so much that I now like him better then the male lead.
The plan was to kill him off in those six pages and have the male lead live to the end. Now I plan on killing off the male lead in the book instead and letting the new guy live the whole book and put him in a spin off. (sorry but somebody had to die. Wouldn't be a rashaad bell joint if everybody lived to the end.)
Was just wondering if I'm the only one that does stuff like this.
It's during those times that I create new characters on the fly who then make up the supporting cast.
The reason I asked this question is because it was during one of those "in between" moments where I invented a guy who should have been in the book no longer then five or six pages. I fell in love with him so much that I now like him better then the male lead.
The plan was to kill him off in those six pages and have the male lead live to the end. Now I plan on killing off the male lead in the book instead and letting the new guy live the whole book and put him in a spin off. (sorry but somebody had to die. Wouldn't be a rashaad bell joint if everybody lived to the end.)
Was just wondering if I'm the only one that does stuff like this.