torrid girl's first assignment
Your first assignment is meant to "limber you up" and will be a preliminary work for later assignments. Furthermore, you can cultivate a systematic approach to story-writing:
You please create something I like to call a character card.
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In a character card you write everything important about a heroine/hero of your story (or about any other character, for that matter). A c.c. can and even should contain more information about the person than eventually used in the story itself.
What's the point? First of all, some readers may get distracted if the blonde bloke from the first sentence has dark hair two pages later. The c.c. assists in preventing mistakes like that. It also helps to get a feeling for the person you are writing about; a narration's plausibility suffers if its heroine/hero acts "out of character".
You may write in note form, starting with gender, age, hair colour, then more personal stuff, e.g.: Was the character adopted and is now on a constant search for their parents, is he/she allergic to any kind of food?
Be aware: you will have to work with that character later on. And the fun part is that you don't know yet what kind of story you will be writing! ;)
Enjoy!
