Open

• (Pre-Open) Pick a word, and use it a lot (new Evil Mur tip?)
• Mur’s newest, STATION ETERNITY, will be out on October 4 2022

Good News Good News

• Hugo nominations are open for 2022
• Team Rejection count: 38
• New book: Slaying the Dragon by Ben Riggs

Main Topic: Let’s Build A Character!

• Using a character toolkit to help create characters for your story
• Better Backstories cards (see links) could help jumpstart ideas
• Yes, fictional characters living rent-free in your head is common with storytellers
• How hard is it to write a character who is completely manipulative/psychologically abusive/etc
• Next, Rory’s Story Cubes as a different story building tool
• Writer Emergency Pack idea cards by screenwriter John August
• Let’s Play A Game: group building a character’s backstory

February 10, 2022 | Season 18 Ep 13 | murverse.com Copyright 2022, Mur Lafferty | BY-NC-SA 3.5 License