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Monthly Challenge: In the background
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featheredhugsGo to any movie and you'll see them... Extras. They move about in the background, fill a stadium and basically give the hero people to save. Some get killed ten minutes into the movie, others are really just blurred shadows but they are still needed to give dimension to the story.
The challenge for this month is In the Background. Pick a character from a story and write about how it came to be in that setting. Did it have an important role that no one ever sees? What was their life like? Or create a character and tell how it would live if it were in a setting of a story you like.
Some prompts (you don't have to use them, it's just there if you want them):
* Randomly choose a book and pick an "extra". Maybe it's a cashier that the hero buys his coffee from, the person beside them on the bus. What had their day been like up to then?
* Your character has just woken up to a world of nothing. No busy streets, no random people, no animals or things that the main character or hero can interact with. Is it easier for you to write stories without background characters or is it easier to write stories with them?
* Draw a group photo of as many "extras" in a story as you can fit on a page. Or write a list and then write or draw how you imagined them to look like, what their personalities could be.
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The challenge for this month is In the Background. Pick a character from a story and write about how it came to be in that setting. Did it have an important role that no one ever sees? What was their life like? Or create a character and tell how it would live if it were in a setting of a story you like.
Some prompts (you don't have to use them, it's just there if you want them):
* Randomly choose a book and pick an "extra". Maybe it's a cashier that the hero buys his coffee from, the person beside them on the bus. What had their day been like up to then?
* Your character has just woken up to a world of nothing. No busy streets, no random people, no animals or things that the main character or hero can interact with. Is it easier for you to write stories without background characters or is it easier to write stories with them?
* Draw a group photo of as many "extras" in a story as you can fit on a page. Or write a list and then write or draw how you imagined them to look like, what their personalities could be.