I Need a Little Help

[Lionel Deatherage]

I've had a background for my character, but i'm stuck on it. i spit out a story places and times, but I cant finish it i need to get to the end. is anyone up for helping out with the ending to my beginning?

I'll type it up soon and post it, but until i do i just need to know who i should go to for advice and insight.

[BadAdam]

well, i dident really know what my story was gonna be, so i just started it and did it in sections. I pretty much followed ben's format in the way its told.

Ben set a good example on the Were IC forums as to format. Just write it out and see how people comment to it. Another good thing to do is to anylize other people's in character histories.

Lots of times you can make up your own original ideas based on insights that pop up in their stories that might be related to yours.

Anywho, the best advice i can give, is just start writing it, give it a little time, and things will come to ya. Trust me, it dont take long to get critisism from this group of misfits lmao.

GL man, look forward to seeing some more good stories on the boards hehe.

[benime]

I pretty much made my background up as I went along.

[Lionel Deatherage]

as did i, i made up somethings based on where I've been but i'm stuck and have been stuck for the better part of a month

[Julyenne Kreager]

Well, think of these things...

How traumatic was your first change?
What do you, the writer, want to have happened during it?
How much do you feel your character should remember?

The majority of Garou don't remember their first change, actually. That's probably something to do with it usually being a Frenzy...

[benime]

teizon68 said:

as did i, i made up somethings based on where I've been but i'm stuck and have been stuck for the better part of a month

Well honestly, the best thing you can possibly hope for is to listen to some brainstorming ideas and then come up with your own idea. ;D

Speaking of which...

[Athena Fire-in-Snow]

Another possibility...timeline it. Put down all the things that happened in short (2-3 sentence tops) paragraphs in the order they happened, labeled with the time they happened. Then mark down how much time you have to fill between major events. Then you would have something organized to show people and ask "any ideas for THIS gap"? And sometimes just looking at it all laid out and organized can help you see things you didn't before...
And prevent you from, oh, say, having the last member of your character's father's race die out 500 years before your character's conception... (yes, I actually did this in a story once...and the wonder of it is that it took six months before anyone noticed...)

[Chilli]

Another GREAT thing to do is have a general idea of a moment in time for your character and talk to an ST about it, then have the ST run a scene. First changes/Embrace scenes are EXCELLENT for this...

[benime]

Benefits of having the STs run your history: Your history will be cool! Your history will fit in to current plot! Your history will be chock full of relevant data! Your history will make perfect sense!

Downsides of having the STs run your history: You may discover that you died long ago, thus ceasing to exist!

[charisma]

Dude, I'm a writer, I'd be more than happy to give you a hand. If I can read it, I could give you ideas as to how to end it. I actually wrote mine up in like a half hour, but there wasn't much to put into it. My character's really young and doesn't know much about anything.

[Bridget MacClelland]

benime said:

Downsides of having the STs run your history: You may discover that you died long ago, thus ceasing to exist!

Thanks for the idea, Ben! ;D

[benime]

darkkyrie said:

benime said:

Downsides of having the STs run your history: You may discover that you died long ago, thus ceasing to exist!

Thanks for the idea, Ben! ;D

Hence why I wrote mine in detail.

"What was that?"

Oh, I just said 'I feel I'm in a bind working retail.' >_>