{"id":3909,"date":"2019-08-15T17:34:04","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T17:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/2019\/08\/15\/a-question-of-character\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T22:39:18","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T22:39:18","slug":"a-question-of-character","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/?p=3909","title":{"rendered":"A Question of Character"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This one is for the writers and RPG gamers out there.<\/p>\n<p>What draws you to a character?<\/p>\n<p>Not as far as <em>reading<\/em>, but <em>creating<\/em>. When you&#8217;re coming up with a new book, or preparing for a new campaign, what draws you? You need to create someone who&#8217;s both interesting and sympathetic enough for you to live with for a few hundred pages, or a few dozen game sessions, if not more. (Though obviously, the lines are drawn differently for everyone.) So what do you look for? What do you try to add? What <em>must<\/em> or <em>must not<\/em> be present for this to be a character you&#8217;re both comfortable and interested in writing\/portraying?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This one is for the writers and RPG gamers out there. What draws you to a character? Not as far as reading, but creating. When you&#8217;re coming up with a new book, or preparing for a new campaign, what draws you? You need to create someone who&#8217;s both interesting and sympathetic enough for you to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3909","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-old-news","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}