{"id":1096,"date":"2015-03-09T13:52:41","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T18:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ellismorning.com\/blog\/?p=1096"},"modified":"2015-03-09T13:55:40","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T18:55:40","slug":"friends-and-foes-stay-track-of-whos-who-with-relationship-tracking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ellismorning.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/friends-and-foes-stay-track-of-whos-who-with-relationship-tracking\/","title":{"rendered":"Friends and Foes: Stay Track Of Who’s Who With Relationship Tracking"},"content":{"rendered":"

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All right! Let’s assume you’re plotting your characters for a full-length novel. You’ve used the character sheet<\/a> to form a baseline idea of where everyone comes from and what they’re capable of. You’ve plotted out character arcs<\/a> to figure out how the story’s plot is going to affect each character, and how they’ll react in turn.<\/p>\n

As you might realize while arc-plotting, these characters don’t exist inside glass bubbles, totally separate from other characters. They (gasp!) interact with one another in various ways. They might make beautiful music together- or, claw each other’s eyes out. How do you know? You don’t, unless you take some time now<\/em> to think over and plot the progression.<\/p>\n

You’re going to identify the most important relationships in your story (ex. Bob and Diane). Then, in a fresh word processing document or notebook, you’re going to spend a few paragraphs detailing the arcs of their relationships:<\/p>\n