Another flake in our snowflake!

Now things start to get sticky (and long). We now need to bring together our characters and (according to Randy) to similar stuff to them that we did for the novel, plus some! What we need for each character is:

• The character's name 
• A one-sentence summary of the character's storyline 
• The character's motivation (what does he/she want abstractly?) 
• The character's goal (what does he/she want concretely?) 
• The character's conflict (what prevents him/her from reaching this goal?) 
• The character's epiphany (what will he/she learn, how will he/she change? 
• A one-paragraph summary of the character's storyline 

Well, I think we have most of this information except for the summary and that's the fun part. I always like this part since it lets me look at the story from the bad guys point of view, and keeps me from making a one dimensional villain. Let's borrow from out HtTS work and expand the details of our characters. Since I'm writing a single point of view story from Mark's perspective, Mark will be easy

• Mark Nealson
  1. Mark Nealson is possessed by an Archangel and must lead the seelie court against the demon that stole his children
  2. Mark wants to be normal and successful.
  3. Mark wants his children back.
  4. First, the seelie court steals them, then the fallen manages to kidnap them, and being posses is anything but normal.
  5. Don't be afraid of change, change is life.6. Mark is suffering from blackouts during martial arts matches, but instead of failing, he's winning. He returns home from his latest victory and admits it to his wife after the kids go down for bed and during this conversation the house is assaulted by four men (who rise from the dead when slain) and in the aftermath the children are missing his wife is barely conscious, the cat is talking to him, and the house is on fire. He follows the cat on the urging of his wife and the cat leads him and her out behind the house and into the world of the seelie court where he is required to lead the court into battle to avenge the theft of his children from the court by the unseelie court. During the battle in the graveyard of the weeping angel, Mark faces the fallen angel and drives him off, but not before he grabs his daughter and flees toward the rail yard. Mark decides to leave his son in the card of the seelie court again and pursues the fallen on battles him atop a racing train while trying to keep his daughter from falling or being dropped from the train. In the end, Mark leaves his daughter in the care of a church and pursues the fallen angel to the top of an abandoned building and defeats him in a rather close battle where Mark offers to sacrifice himself to drive the fallen away permanently, but the willingness to sacrifice is enough. 
• Kaylah Nealson - Former Accountant, Marital Artist (see Mark), Mother, Wife, Web Comic Author, MS
  1. Kaylah is suffering from MS and feels worthless because of it but a battle for her children proves her anything but helpless.
  2. Kaylah wants to be free of MS.
  3. Kahlah wants her family to be safe.
  4. Thugs storm the house and try to steal her children, and Mark is having psychological issues.
  5. MS is not the end of the world, and she is holding herself back in fear.
  6. Kaylah is house bound, and views every setback in her life as being caused by her MS. When Mark tells her about his strange problem, she tries at first to blame it on herself. She can no longer go on blaming herself when the thugs attack the house and make a play for her children and with Mark manages to fight them off, despite her very real physical problems. In great pain and barely holding on to consciousness, she see and hears the cat talking to Mark, and when he confirms she's not hallucinating, she urges him to take her with him after the children. Hearing the tale of batltle to come, she tells Mark to go after them, and she will handle the police back at home. She returns to the real world and puts on an act to convince the police that some of the thugs actually escaped from the house and that Mark and she followed them out the back of the house, only she was unable to keep up and Mark went on without her. Then she organizes the mundane details of surviving a fire and waits fretfully for her families return. She is waiting at home when Mark arrives and walks to him with support, unsteady but more confident in herself. 

Okay, that's enough for today ... enjoy your writing!