Reading and writing character

I finished the Paranormal Public series by Maddy Edwards last night. What a ride that was! The series starts off fairly slow but it definitely built bit by bit until it was a thrilling ride. Now it’s time to find a new series to dive into. I’m thinking about The Selection series by Kiera Cass. If you’re interested in what I’m reading/have read/want to read, there’s a link to my goodreads profile on the right. I’m pretty good about updating it every few days. I’m always picking up new ebooks for my kindle fire and they get added to my shelves within a few days.

I’ve been thinking about characters today and how they’re created. So far in my own novel evolution, I have the basic idea for a story. However, I don’t really have a main character. I know who I think it should be within the context of the story but I don’t feel like I know the ins and outs of that character and who she is. I’ve heard about authors whose characters speak to them and I can’t help but be jealous. Looks like reading on creating characters is in my near future. I know my characters will have to have flaws. I’ll have to fight the desire to make them perfect because I always cringe when my favorite character does something stupid.

Once I have a better idea of where I want my story to go (of course, no guarantee it goes that way!), I plan to write at least 1,000 words every day. Some days I’m sure I’ll write more than that. But 1,000 words every day is going to be my minimum. Ideally the story would top out between 60,000 and 80,000 words but for now I’m just going to let the story take me where it will. Freaking out over word counts is for the editing stage of this process.