Best Character Writer of the Week: aniuby

**Myth** · 02-11-2009 13:59

Congrats, XHR!

**Lord E** · 02-11-2009 19:13

Congratulations XHR

**Iain Wilson** · 02-11-2009 20:52

Congratulations!

**Iain Wilson** · 03-11-2009 00:46

Congratulations XHR!

**Hardraade** · 03-11-2009 17:41

Congratulations, XHR!

**General_BT** · 03-11-2009 21:57

Congratulations XHR and all the previous winners! (I've been absent from this thread too long)

**XHR** · 03-11-2009 22:27

Enewald, Myth, Lord E, Iain Wilson, Hardraade, General_BT: Thank you very much!

**XHR** · 08-11-2009 17:54

A week has passed and though I had little time to read the magnificent works of many writers around here I have read into one EUIII AAR a bit - and found it brilliant in storytelling mainly due to the excellent depiction of the main characters.
Thus I give this award to a man that has supported me during my first struggles as a writer and who writes with a burning feather - I am talking about Brandenburg III and his awesome AAR The Dark Muse. I specially give this price to him for the gripping portrait of two characters, Jànos and Farid.

Congratulations, "Smooth Operator"

**Enewald** · 08-11-2009 18:10

Gratz Brandenburg!

Too bad that Farid met his destiny.

**Lord E** · 08-11-2009 18:20

Congratulations Brandenburg III

***Qorten*** · 08-11-2009 20:04

Congrats Brandenburg III!

**asd21593** · 08-11-2009 21:57

Congrats, Brandenburg III!

**Iain Wilson** · 08-11-2009 22:33

Congratulations!

That's one thing I love about these awards; they get you reading AARs that you wouldn't have otherwise noticed (not being an EU player and all that).

**XHR** · 08-11-2009 23:22

Originally Posted by Iain Wilson

Congratulations!

That's one thing I love about these awards; they get you reading AARs that you wouldn't have otherwise noticed (not being an EU player and all that).

Exactly! And this AAR of B3 is very special indeed and definitely worth reading!

**coz1** · 09-11-2009 00:10

Originally Posted by XHR

Exactly! And this AAR of B3 is very special indeed and definitely worth reading!

Agreed. Congratulations, B3!

**stnylan** · 09-11-2009 00:26

Very worthy winner

**Brandenburg III** · 12-11-2009 03:34

I almost forgot about this

with so much going on these days.

Thanks XHR and others for your comments about the project. Its good to know people are still tuning in to it even after these last few months.

I won’t go too much into the story as I’ve done that a few times but I haven’t really gone into the characters. Or rather, my character creation.

Before I started the story I wanted to have a solid main character. And Janos really is the only main character since he travels between the reality we live in and the one tucked away inside a book. In my stories for my main characters and strong sub-characters I use character sheets, outlining their lives in strict detail. I don’t do this merely to remember what color eyes I gave the character but as I design the characters from ground up, I’m able to formulate their personality. It becomes something which they own. This creation also forces the creator to research a little into the area the character is from which is never a bad thing and can even spur more ideas for your story.

Farid was a different mess. He had no character sheet, just like the rest of the characters who lived inside the book. I didn’t think I needed one for them since this was 'only an AAR' and I had an outline, as loose as it was; I realized as I wrote that I should’ve created them anyway. This mistake has caused me to create such character sheets for each character I plan to have, no matter how incidental - unless they have no name.

Its really a great help to do these things. It'll also keep you from re-reading what you've already written.

I recall LD having supplied a character sheet somewhere in the SolAARium at some time but I’m at a complete loss to locate it. Besides, it won’t hurt you to read through that sticky even if there isn’t much to add.

There are more chapters to come for the story but Muse is at its end. But this doesn’t mean the end of the story, no, one can mark this as the halfway point! Janos must still fight to save the world. In this new incantation one should expect more fantasy, more lore, new characters and better pictures to litter the Victoria forum when the conclusion hits the electronic screen next Saturday (or Sunday... or if I’m really lazy, Monday.

)

Oh, and it would be terrible if I didn’t mention the WritAARs Building, a new project in this area of AARland. It has its first submission, a submission which I’ll be commenting on sometime tomorrow. I hope to see a few eyes there... and a few critiques wouldn’t hurt either.

**coz1** · 12-11-2009 03:48

Originally Posted by Brandenburg III

I recall LD having supplied a character sheet somewhere in the SolAARium at some time but I’m at a complete loss to locate it. Besides, it won’t hurt you to read through that sticky even if there isn’t much to add.

LD's Character Sheets: found right here. Linked in the fAARq under Writing Techniques/Hints--Character Sheets.

And agreed, BIII. The SolAARium is a fountain of knowledge.

**The_Guiscard** · 12-11-2009 17:45

Congratulations, Brandenburg III!!!

EU isn't quite my cup of coffee, but I now really have to check out that Weimar-AAR of yours...

**aldriq** · 12-11-2009 20:35

Congratulations! So the Muse will continue in Victoria?! That's great news.

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