What's the last thing you researched for a story?Um, I think it was the laws relating to murder (and how to avoid them). It was RESEARCH. I had a smart bad guy (well girl but whatever) who wanted to kill loads of people without being arrested.
In case you were interested, I came up with the thought that she couldn't be properly arrested if she killed all of the judges in the city. Seeing as she doesn't care who she kills, I might actually do that.Do you tend to have a lot of characters in a story, or just a few mains?Usually quite a few, but it tends to vary. I'll just focus on the main character(s) but there's loads of other people who come and go with no real importance to the plot. Not a good thing to do, I know, but I do it anyway.
Which made me think of my own question:
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[b]Do you tend to have detailed side characters, or just ones with vague personalities? How much effort goes into the story of your non-mains?[/b]
When/if you make up a language, do you just whip it all up as you go, or do you take already existing words and mix them up with other words (made up or not)?I don't usually make up whole languages, but when I'm making up words I decide on the real-world language I'm basing it off of. Most recently, I was making a new word in a European-ish, English speaking country. Because quite a few English words are based off Greek, I used Google Translate to try out a few words in Greek with vaguely similar meaning. The word I wanted had to mean magic, so I chose a word that was Greek for power/strength and I changed it a bit so that it fitted better with the accent of the people in my story. Yes, I use Google Translate. Don't judge me.
Rini, welcome to the laziness! Avoid carrots for your own safety c:
Anyway, I hurt my hand yesterday and I was so worried I wouldn't be able to do any writing. I can, but it makes my hand ache (also I can't write on paper, but I never do that anyway so meh).
So now I'm sad. That's all I wanted to say. And I hope you appreciate the effort put into me writing this down, because now I have an icepack on my wrist. Not that it's stopping me from writing right now or anything... I shall defy my own brain telling me no. My brain's an idiot anyway. Words words words, wordy words wordily words. I'm totally not insane.