In honour of reaching my thirtieth New Fiction Idea, I've decided to do another special. With my current ideas, here are a few tallies:
Main Character
(3 stories with no one main character: War, The Rules, Chemists)
14 Males: Mayflies, Macbay Transportation Services, Family of Ibro, Mount, Revolution, A Murder of Crows, NFI#17, Wanderers, Carmine, Figments, Dynblaidd, Roughhouse, The Adventures of Donny Quigley from Smudgen, Kansas, Piracy Cruise Lines
13 Females: Chasers, Crumbling, Intolerant, Entrapped, Special, The Heiress, NFI#14, A Job to Do, NFI#23, Bloom, NFI#27, Blood, Brain, Body, Home By the Sea
14 Teenagers: Mayflies, Crumbling, Intolerant, Entrapped, Special, Family of Ibro, NFI#14, NFI#17, Figments, Bloom, Roughhouse, Piracy Cruise Lines, Blood, Brain, Body, Home By the Sea
13 Adults: Chasers, Macbay Transportation Services, The Heiress, Mount, Revolution, A Murder of Crows, Wanderers, Carmine, Dynblaidd, A Job to Do, NFI#23, The Adventures of Donny Quigley from Smudgen, Kansas, NFI#27
17 Whites: Emilia, unnamed of Intolerant, Sophia, Gavin, Andromache, Theodore, Hannah, Lorenzo, Tommy, Joey, Alizarin, Malcolm, M, Hamilton, Michelle, Sherman, Felicia
2 Asians: Macbay, Ena
2 Native Americans: Jonathan and Matthew
1 Arabic: Andrea
5 Mixed: Pink (white/Hispanic), Kori (white/Native American), Aaron (werewolf/white), Danielle (white/Arabic), Donny (Asian/white)
1 Non-Human: Davey (nightingale)
Other Main Characters
32 Whites: "Red", Clyde, Cora, Jordan, Athena, Edwin, Victor, Josephine, Claudius, Shara, Angus, Daphne, Dobson and Crick, Corey, Deirdre, Jonah, Stannum, Annette, Deborah, Cerise, Corey, Galen, Enrich, Godric, Shelton, Timaeus, Lawrence, Terry, Sander, Francisco, Darla
4 Blacks: "Ink", Darrell, Crystal, Henry
3 Asians: Loretta May, Ian, John
1 Native American: Julian
1 Hispanic: Abel
8 Mixed: Joel (white/Latino), Kaliause (Vietnamese/alien), Neal (white/Arabic), Kimberley (white/Indian), Andraste (white/elf), John (white/Thai), Cayman (black/Hispanic/Asian), Rachel (white/Japanese)
2 Non-Humans: Benny (raven), Liutas (lion-type alien)
23 Teenagers: "Red", Joel, Abel, Cora, Jordan, Athena, Edwin, Victor, Josephine, Angus, Daphne, Corey, Kaliause, Corey, Darrell, Crystal, Galen, Andraste, Lawrence, John, Terry, Rachel, Henry
29 Adults: "Ink", Clyde, Julian, Loretta May, Claudius, Shara, Dobson and Crick, Ian, Deirdre, Jonah, Benny, Stannum, Liutas, Annette, Neal, Deborah, Kimberley, Cerise, Lennon, Enrich, Godric, Shelton, Timaeus, Sander, Cayman, Francisco, Darla, John
Antagonist:
12 Specifically Known: The Rules, Macbay Transportation Services, Family of Ibro, NFI#17, Wanderers, Dynblaidd, Chasers, The Heiress, A Job to Do, NFI#23, Bloom, Home By the Sea
14 Generally Known: War, Mount, Revolution, Chemists, Carmine, Roughhouse, The Adventures of Donny Quigley from Smudgen, Kansas, Crumbling, Intolerant, Special, NFI#14, Figments, NFI#27, Blood, Brain, Body
4 Spoilers: Mayflies, A Murder of Crows, Piracy Cruise Lines, Entrapped
Of those characterised
14 Males: Max Webb, Clark Seeley, Peter, Kevin, Aristaeus, Lennon, John, Stuart, Stephen, Rick, William, Chester, Smith, Noah
9 Females: Vonda, Seona, Shelby, Leah, Leslie, Vanessa, Cassandra, Sharon, Cheryl
1 Child: Shelby
5 Teenagers: Kevin, Leah, Stephen, Vanessa, Chester
17 Adults: Max Webb, Clark Seeley, Vonda, Peter, Seona, Aristaeus, Lennon, John, Leslie, Stuart, Rick, Cassandra, William, Sharon, Smith, Cheryl, Noah
11 Whites: Clark Seeley, Peter, Aristaeus, Shelby, Leah, John, Stephen, Cassandra, Chester, Cheryl, Noah
2 Blacks: Stuart, Rick
2 Asians: Max Webb, Kevin
1 Indian: William
1 Arabic: Sharon
4 Mixed: Lennon (white/Native American), Leslie (white/Hispanic), Vanessa (white/Korean/Hispanic), Smith (white/black)
2 Non-Humans: Vonda (greenish humanoid alien), Seona (elf)
Primary Genre
5 Science Fiction: Crumbling, War, Chemists, NFI#17, NFI#27
4 Dystopian: Intolerant, NFI#14, Bloom, Roughhouse
4 Steampunk: Entrapped, Mount, Wanderers, Macbay Transportation Services
9 Fantasy: Chasers, Mayflies, Special, The Heiress, Carmine, Dynblaidd, NFI#23, Family of Ibro
2 Horror: Figments, The Rules, Home By the Sea
2 Action/Adventure: A Job to Do, Blood, Brain, Body
1 Mystery: A Murder of Crows
3 Comedy: Revolution, The Adventures of Donny Quigley from Smudgen, Kansas, Piracy Cruise Lines
Setting
10 Past: Mayflies, Entrapped, The Heiress, Mount, Wanderers, Carmine, Dynblaidd, NFI#23, Macbay Transportation Services, Family of Ibro
9 Present: Chasers, Special, Revolution, The Rules, A Murder of Crows, The Adventures of Donny Quigley from Smudgen, Kansas, Figments, Piracy Cruise Lines, Home By the Sea
11 Future: Crumbling, Intolerant, War, Chemists, NFI#14, NFI#17, A Job to Do, Bloom, NFI#27, Roughhouse, Blood, Brain, Body
Point of View
12 First Person: Mayflies, Special, War, Mount, The Rules, Chemists, A Murder of Crows, Wanderers, Family of Ibro, Figments, Piracy Cruise Lines, Blood, Brain, Body
12 Third Person Limited: Chasers, Intolerant, The Heiress, Carmine, Dynblaidd, A Job to Do, NFI#27, Macbay Transportation Services, NFI#14, NFI#17, Roughhouse, Home By the Sea
6 Third Person Omniscient: Crumbling, Entrapped, Revolution, NFI#23, The Adventures of Donny Quigley from Smudgen, Kansas, Bloom
Ha, this is cool! It's quite a feeling of accomplishment to see all of one's characters, plots and settings laid out like this! (Because even if you haven't written them yet, hey, you still have them in your head, which is the first step!)
ReplyDeleteYeah, I may not have all of them fleshed out (some hardly at all...), but they're there. Doing this in itself sort of grew them—for some of the characters, I had so blurry a mental image I didn't even know what ethnicity they were.
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