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Fun Fact Friday: Traditional Board Games and Characters

Friday, July 8, 2016

I went a few days without coffee and my depression deepened. Hot tea is nice, but it doesn't have the caffeine kick that coffee gives me. I won't let this happen for about a year or two. Every couple of years I do this and I know that I'll get a bit depressed when I gold caffeine cold turkey. I had my two mugs of coffee this morning so I'm feeling happier and better able to confront "the changes and chances of outrageous fortune". I wonder if Shakespeare had coffee or if his only caffeine jolt was from English black tea. Maybe he didn't have to worry about that since mead was a common drink in his era.

The Fun Fact Friday prompt for "30-Day Blogging Challenge ON HIATUS" 
On this day in 1969, the United States Patent Office issued a patent for the game Twister  . Do you and/or your family still play traditional board games? Is there a favorite in your group?

When I was growing up my siblings and I played Candy Land. After a while we moved from Candy Land to Monopoly and Scrabble. As we grew older our taste in board game broadened and we began playing Dungeon & Dragons. Even though I don't play them much any more, I still like Candy Land, Monopoly, Scrabble, and Dungeon & Dragons. I also attempted Chess, but I enjoy watching it more the playing it. My favorite board game is Monopoly and my second favorite is Scrabble.

The "Blogging Circle of Friends "  prompt for Day 1332
I was reading Creating Characters by the editors at Writer's Digest and came across this: There is a character hierarchy where not all characters are created equal. They indicate place holders,walk-ons, minor characters and your lead characters create the story. I'm curious how do you measure the importance of each character before the story develops or does it just fall into place? I'm a poet trying to learn more.

This is an issue I've never considered, which may be the reason I'm having problems with some of my novels. Perhaps I need to list my characters in order of importance. Perhaps prioritizing the walk-ons as C characters, other minor characters as B, and lead characters as A. I usually let my characters fall into place while I'm writing the story and then run into problems when I edit. Perhaps if I prioritize my characters as they appear in the story it might help when I go to edit.