Being Peta

I have spent a good chunk of this evening developing characters for my nanowrimo story plan.  I forgot how much fun it was starting a story from almost scratch with  brand spanky new characters forming right under my fingers.  Having more creative fun then I've had in a LOOOONG time! :)

Am loving Mindmap... so easy to inset stuff and juggle it all around.  I'm using it to note down any old idea that pops into my head and to flesh out my characters in point form.  I've spent the last hour or so moving these newly minted beings onto the character sheets on Ywriter and fleshing them out even further.  I am going to finish loading these in before I start trying to order the actual story events into a comprehensive chain.  I'm being very strict about keeping the cast to a manageable level.  Only working on characters that are essentual to the plot.

It's early days yet, but I'm still concerned that my main protagonist feels a bit bland to me.  Have to find a way to make him more interesting.  My other main characters are coming along nicely though.  Lots of juicy idosincrisies to play with.

I had a general idea for the basis of the story in my head for the last couple of months.  It's wicked fun working on expanding it.

Just to recap, this one is set in the Terinu universe but close to century in the future.