Out on the Catwalk

Although I haven't been writing much other than a scene here or there (blame school/stress), my work-in-progress story Ripper has gone under a lot of change since I first wrote it. Like...a lot. The first time, it was kind of weak, but a good representation of the basic storyline- which I guess is pretty good for a first draft! One of the things that was lacking severly was...characters. Seriously. There were two and a half characters in that story really. Day, Aaron, and Daniel would be the half (he wasn't really that developed at the time. He only counts as half). I'm sorry- but for a murder-mystery-esque thing....there are more people required than that. You know, family members. Co-workers. And now- there are both of those.

I feel kind of lame to be using this...buuuuuuuut....a few days ago a friend of mine pointed out to me a disney princess doll maker. The first thing I do? Make the new Ripper girls in this disney maker. So, ignore the fact that these girls are in desperate need of a cheeseburger, are in the same exact pose, and the fact that I was just too lazy to draw them please XD

Meet Laurel! I really like Laurel. I find her to be particularly interesting because I always knew she was going to be in the story, even though I didn't realize who she was yet. To explain- I first wrote Ripper during NaNoWriMo in 2008. In that month, there were a couple of spontaneous characters that just popped up in one scene, and I knew that they were going to pop up again and be more important characters. Daniel was one of these, and now I couldn't imagine the story without him. (Well...now that he's gone through some character rehashing.) Laurel was the other one. However- she didn't reveal herself to me until well after I had finished it. When the crew was at the headquarters, there was always this girl in the background doing trivial stuff, and yet she refused to show herself to me. It was a fight to find out who she was. But the second she let me know, SHE LET ME KNOW.
Although, I find it interesting that she, as a character, hid from me for so long, because that's part of who she is.

This is Charlie! With my first go at Ripper, I failed to do one thing. I had absolutely failed to include the main character's family. There was a good reason for that- he was a poor orphan boy. He had no family. I then realized "Wait a second. He's orphaned at 11....where the HECK does he live until he goes off to fight crime?" That is a good example at failing to plan. Since then, his story has become a lot more clear. This is Charlie. Aaron's adoptive big sister, and blood sister of his best friend Quinn when their family took the boy in. (...oddly enough. I thought of this BEFORE almost the same thing happened to a close friend of my sisters, and my family took her in.) She is by far the most NORMAL thing in the story, which is very good. I only had one side of society when I wrote it the first time. There were only the pessimists, looking at the bad and focusing on that. And then BAM! Charlie! ...She's honestly probably one of the best things to happen to this story. Even though she's not in it a lot, she's significant.

To conclude...FEMALES...THEY ARE IN RIPPER NOW. I'M SURPRISED.