On 02/17/2014 08:23 AM, Stephan Hradek wrote:
So let me try to summarize:
1) You have one set of characters.
2) You have several stories.
3) You want to have the characters as tiddlers.
4) You want to create the stories as tiddlers, one story per wiki.
5) Characters can evolve during their story-liftime.
My approach would be:
a) Create one wiki with your characters.
b) When you start a new story you start it based on a copy of a)
c) Should a character evolve, his tiddler needs to be copied to a)
Reason behind this: A characters evolution should not affect the old
stories, right? So every set of characters should be "final" per story.
Imagine Harry Potter from "/Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows"
/suddenly appearing in /"//Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets".
/Would be a bit confusing, wouldn't it? ;)
Or did I understand you completely wrong?
You understand quite correctly but come to a radically different
conclusion for a few reasons.
I've tried what you suggest but the copying back and forth of the
character records, as well as details of locations to maintain
consistency across the stories, and as you correctly point out the
timeline is a chore and very error prone.
Character evolution is documented in each character record. Some things
about a character are never going to change, quite obviously. DoB,
parents and the like. Others are 'additions, such as children, but the
character record also contains the character timeline. Date of birth,
marriage(s), death; schooling ... More.
If you take a look at the Wikipedia entries for various historical
characters, for example, you will see that there is one entry that
covers the person's life from birth to death and details of his/her
career. Yes there might be references to wars or other events, but
those entries are the details of those events.
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- Erica Jong
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