Tuesday, February 01, 2005

Mission: Dawn - completed scene "Dr. who?"

I've completed, in a loose sense of the word "completed", the scene titled "Dr. who?". It's a little rough and feels rushed at the end, but it serves its purpose, which is to continue the introduction of the major characters.

I started writing Mission: Dawn because I needed a creative outlet that wasn't being served by my other creative outlets. I used to co-write a serial called The Tales of Dirk Halfspeed in the eighties. When I and my writing partner started that series, we hadn't given much thought to the characters or plot; we just made it all up as we went along, and we regularly tried to stump each other by creating a problem for our characters and leaving it up to the other writer to solve. This approach led to a very disjointed, uneven, and inconsistent story line and characterizations.


I hope to be able to approach the Mission: Dawn story from a much more mature writing process. This time, I gave some thought to the major characters, who they are as people, and their back story, before I wrote even one scene.

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