Character Profile: Captain Faryl

I'm going to do some character profiles on the secondary characters from Child of Galina. I'm doing this to help open up the world of Galina to the readers a little bit more.

Captain Faryl:

Age: Unknown, guessed to be around 30 the first time he meets David Bahzro.
Race: Dreymew
Physical Description: Nearly 6 feet tall, mostly covered in tawny colored fur, human torso with a mane around the face instead of hair. Legs are those of a lion accompanied by a tail that can alert others to the inner feelings of the Dreymew. Like most Dreymews, Faryl became a soldier as it is their nature to fight.
Characteristics: Loyal, Fighter, Brave, Strong, Forgiving with time

Captain Faryl is highly thought of within the Dreymew community and beyond it. He is ruthless in his training of the soldiers beneath him, but it is for their own good. He wants his soldiers to always be on the ready for it may mean their lives if they are not trained properly. Faryl is loyal to the Bahzro family due to Keila's kindness towards him and his Dreymew bretheran.

Books to Movie - Dream Adaptations

It is rare that a film gets the full spectrum of emotion and story that a book can impart upon someone. But there are a few that get it right. I'm hoping to see The Great Gatsby soon and I hope that it is not one of the disappointing literary to film creations.

To see what other people were looking forward to or enjoyed in the past as far as book to movie adaptations that have taken place or will take place I posed this question on Twitter:

So what are people looking forward to, daydreaming about, or have enjoyed as far as book adaptations go?

So the list on Twitter was

Thief of Always by Clive Barker (I hope that this becomes a movie one day).
Monster Hunter Inc.by Larry Correia (I haven't read this one yet, but am adding it to my list now)
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin (Choose your pick of movie adaptations on this one)
Immortal Instruments Series by Cassandra Clare
The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham

I did have some replies on Facebook as well to this question.

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Under the Dome by Stephen King
The Cement Garden - Andrew Birkin
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ulysses - James Joyce

So what books to movies have you enjoyed, are looking forward to, or wish would happen?

Writing Techniques

When reading other people's techniques to how they write their stories and novels I've decided I must be the odd man(woman) out. I don't really plan my stories. I let the characters lead me where they want to go. Once they've finished telling me their story I go back through and fix the things that either have too much or not enough information. I make sure they left no dangling ends in the story line and brush it all up for them. I don't have an outline or a synopsis.

I've tried writing with an outline before. It felt overly forced and fake to me.

Don't tell my teachers this, but even in school when we had to write a story outline and turn it in before we started writing our stories I would write the entire story then write the outline after. While everyone else was writing their first drafts I was going through my story to make sure there weren't any glaring errors in the storyline. I tried the outline, it didn't work for me.

Now don't get me wrong, I've read authors who swear by the outline and they have phenomenal stories. It just isn't for me.

I would love to hear your experience with various writing techniques!