My second seven-day project is to develop a character a day.
From day 4 I am developing only one character (and I haven't finished yet).
Well, cuz I was busy, and also because it is difficult to develop a character whose life and work have so much to do with the most essential problems in the whole story.
The latter is the reason I got stuck after writing off a bit about Pierce's life yesterday.
There were a lot of bloody tricky (and big) questions embodied in his life!
So today I took a bit of different approach: to tackle his job.
Sometimes, like the above, I jot down (this time I searched the word "surveillance", which was his main job, in thesaurus) words that (seem to) relate to his work. Then I gradually get a sense of what he is like.
In this page, I began comparing Pierce with two other characters whose job (or role) in my story is to observe or stalk the same person that Pierce is watching. I think it helps to compare and differentiate characters and define their roles in the story. I am not finished yet. :P
Also, I guess that in this way, I'm not just developing one character. Well, isn't it nice? :)
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