In a bid to rejuvenate my WIP, I have started to leverage gaming into fiction by turning all of the main characters in the novel into character sheets under FATE Core (more on this in the post next week), a particular system for text based roleplaying.
So far, my protagonists went without hitch and I can feel my level of energy being heightened substantially in that previously I kept leaving working on the WIP to the afternoon before this but now I always get to this task before lunch. To be honest, there is no word count difference from working in the morning versus the afternoon or evening as far as I can determine from real evidence but I just feel like I’m more of a morning person.
The other thing that I’m importing from gaming but has not put into use yet for fiction is the Central Casting book which allows you to create whole character backgrounds from dice rolls (again, details of what I did with it will be shared in next week’s post so stay tuned).
That’s it for this mini update on writing. Stay tuned for next week’s post where I talk about gaming and more.
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