Monday, November 21, 2016

December 2016 Plotters Ink Assignment

For those of you who are not continuing the ongoing character development stories begun earlier this year, your choice for December is to depict (in one page of fictional prose) either an "adventurer" or a "plodder". 

A plodder, according to wiktionary.com, is "a person who works slowly, making a great effort with little result." Work could mean more than just the job one does for a living. Use your imagination here, if you choose this option. 

On the other hand, an adventurer is (according to dictonary.com):

1. a person who has, enjoys, or seeks adventures.
2. a seeker of fortune in daring enterprises; soldier of fortune.
3. a person who undertakes great commercial risk; speculator.
4. a person who seeks power, wealth, or social rank by unscrupulous or questionable means.

Those of us who have been developing an individual character for some months will please wrap up their character sketches with a final episode that ties up all the loose ends. Anyone who wishes may choose to have their ongoing character series posted to a special blog in the works, and may also expand on the series if they would like to do so. The new blog will be available for the public to read sometime in January.

We hope you've enjoyed delving into characterization this year and that you've found it a valuable use of writing time.

Next year we will revisit genre writing, with many new twists. 

As always, keep writing!


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