Friday, July 2, 2010

Lots of characters, but no story?

I find that that’s becoming my issue lately. I have a slew of characters, but every scenario i put them in doesn’t seem a decent fit.

The way things generally go, a character will prance into my head, and I then spend copious amounts of time prying information from said character, whether it be plot, background, relationships, anything like that. And then I try and build a story from it.

And for some reason that I can’t begin to fathom, it just isn’t working this time around.

Has this every happened to anyone? Have you ever solved it? Or are your characters still waiting for a purpose?