Laurence
Inkling
I'm planning and writing a trilogy using Scrivener and am really enjoying mapping out the story and each character arc chunk by chunk.
Those of you out there who map out character arcs before hand, where do you stop? One detailed plot around your protagonist and less around secondary characters or equal attention to everybody?
I'm thinking of plotting out equally detailed arcs for my four main (good guy) characters and five others. Perhaps for secondary characters some of these points will happen off-stage. Does this seem like a little or a lot of planning to you?
My plotting tends to consist of where the character will be, how they're feeling about their initial problem and what they do about it. I'm noting these down for the beginning and end of each of the three books. What do you note and how frequently throughout the story do you use these 'checkpoints'?
Those of you out there who map out character arcs before hand, where do you stop? One detailed plot around your protagonist and less around secondary characters or equal attention to everybody?
I'm thinking of plotting out equally detailed arcs for my four main (good guy) characters and five others. Perhaps for secondary characters some of these points will happen off-stage. Does this seem like a little or a lot of planning to you?
My plotting tends to consist of where the character will be, how they're feeling about their initial problem and what they do about it. I'm noting these down for the beginning and end of each of the three books. What do you note and how frequently throughout the story do you use these 'checkpoints'?