Timeline for Characters time spending: Are there any good limits for time spending on characters of secondary list?
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| Jan 2, 2013 at 12:31 | vote | accept | gaussblurinc | ||
| Jan 2, 2013 at 10:02 | comment | added | gaussblurinc | measureable in memories, right? :) thanks for explanation! | |
| Jan 2, 2013 at 9:54 | comment | added | SF. | @loldop: Then the answer is "enough to make them memorable." Again, not measured in pages or time, but in action and character. Give them enough time to be and do enough for the reader to remember them well until their reappearance, and then add a little more, for spice. Let me restate: one character will be memorable through three lines of exposure followed by one brilliant one-liner, while another may require a whole chapter of fleshing out and forging them through trials of fire. Not measurable in pages. | |
| Jan 2, 2013 at 9:46 | comment | added | gaussblurinc | no-no, no metrics or etc. i mean how human can understand, which character is primary and which is secondary? In my situation, i can't decide, when i can stop describing a character and move to next act if this character is secondary and he appears only at the beginning and at the end. | |
| Jan 2, 2013 at 9:36 | history | answered | SF. | CC BY-SA 3.0 |