Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-1294345-20151127064546/@comment-5264011-20151127231832

MightyUke416 wrote: Ian's not asking to write full profiles for castaways, nor castaway pages. He's simply saying that each castaway should have at the very least, a short summary written about them prior to the season starting. It would be up to the writer as to if they make castaway pages (such as in my season) or a subpage for an entire tribe tribe (for example Survivor: Sri Lanka). Another option for people who don't want to write 16-20 full profiles is a short paragraph about their castaways such as in Survivor: Yucatan (example: Jake Dowker). Also, I agree with Bryce when he says that this could promote user submitted seasons for authors that don't want to write full profiles as they would be able to just cut and paste the submitted summary.

The point of this is because many people (myself included) would like to get to know the cast a little bit before the season starts. Also, the canon series would NEVER start a season without releasing castaway profiles beforehand. '''Also, as the authors of our seasons, we have an idea as to who each castaway is when we create them and it is our job to translate our vision to our reader. Unfortunately, with many characters (especially the ones that get little airtime) we don't get to know really who they are through just reading the fanon.''' I apologize for my rant, but that's just my stance on the issue.

Rant over. Okay I personally don't really like this idea because I like to show the characters without giving insight on the characters in order for the readers to get a better feel for the characters. Without the pages, the readers actually get to see the characters and learn new surprises along the way. It makes the surprises of Survivor more of a surprise, and it gives off the feeling of actual contestants in the show because the contestants don't know anything about each other. This is why I did my Morocco guessing game (the guessing portion) before I put up the pages to make it feel more Survivor-like.

Now onto the bolded sentence. When writing an episode, you don't have to make it like a normal episode of the show because you don't get the see the first boot fullt develop. So, while writing your episode give the first boot enough screentime to develop them, and give everyone else enough screentime as well. You should never have characters be completely invisible in a Survivor story because you aren't on a time limit like the producers are in Survivor. I mean yes, some characters might be unimportant in the chapter/episode you are writing, but you shouldn't give them an INV edit. If one of your characters isn't getting enough screentime, then add more scenes to make them more developed.