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Q&A Can I conceal an antihero's insanity - and should I?

I have an idea for an anti-heroic sci-fi character whose character arc runs from spoilt rich girl, to a refugee in the rubble of human civilisation after an alien invasion, to crewmember and then c...

6 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Monty Wild‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Mark Baker‭

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Q&A Is a lawful good "antagonist" effective?

In my post-apocalyptic novel, my protagonist is not necessarily "good", and although the antagonist is an honest and kind person, my protagonist perceives her as "evil". My antagonist is the leade...

14 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by weakdna says reinstate monica‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Kevin‭

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Q&A Hate to love, love to hate

I was reviewing my first draft and realized: I need a better antagonist. I have a flat, unspecified, weak organization with a stereotypically evil guy who are absolutely easy to defeat. I need an...

5 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by FoxElemental‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Will it be accepted, if there is no ''Main Character" stereotype?

There is a character in every story. Special One. It becomes the center of the story. i.e. the Main character. The author takes special care of them. Provides them wise thinking. Good luck. A cha...

4 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Prasad_Joshi‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Should I let my hero die with the villain?

I'm writing my own fantasy novel and the way I want it to end is with the villain showing his humanity to the hero, begging for mercy, and when the hero is about to spare him the villains stabs him...

2 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Vítor Carvalho‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Averting Protagonist-Centred Morality

Protagonist-Centred Morality is when a fictional work is eager to point out when an antagonist does something immoral or distasteful but fails to acknowledge when a protagonist does the same or som...

2 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by System‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Giving a character a name that is based on his storyline [closed]

I'm trying to find an appropriate name for my main character. I want his name to reflect his personality and symbolize certain aspects of his past. For example, for a character who has supernatura...

2 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Cindered Soul‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A How unadvisable is it to flip the protagonist into a villain?

Essentially, I have a protagonist who I set up as a 'main' good guy in one of my series. However, in my final series, I intend to make him turn to the dark side and oppose my other protagonists (fr...

4 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Adi219‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Creating or identifying secondary protagonists

First of all, this is my first time writing more than a short story, and I am quite new to writing in general, so pretty novice. I am currently in the process of outlining the story for a novel I a...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Pharguin‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A How far I can write about a protagonist with a different ethnicity of me?

I am planning to write a book about a life of a person. However, the protagonist is a black person. The main plot is not about ethnicity things, but where the plot happens I have to talk about some...

2 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Vinicius Morais‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A How to prevent turning off the reader at first with a protagonist with unlikeable traits but that becomes better later on?

I have a story where the protagonist, who is a warrior meant to be the story's hero, has several unlikable traits. He is proud, kind of cold, has a hatred for the people of the enemy State (without...

3 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Yuuza‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A How to trick the reader into thinking they're following a redshirt instead of the protagonist?

I'm currently planning a "magical girl" story, and I thought of an interesting way to start it, rather than launching straight into the backstory. It opens with a woman in her mid-thirties, complet...

5 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by F1Krazy‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Protagonist constantly has to have long words explained to her. Will this get tedious?

A while back, I redrafted my NaNoWriMo 2017 story, but it still needs another draft. This question is about one of the concerns I have. The story takes place in a medieval fantasy setting, and the...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by F1Krazy‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A What if a dark protagonist doesn't want to change?

Dark protagonists. Heroes who are evil, pure flaws, or exhibiting only weakness or darkness, rather than strength or light. There is one basic assumption I would like to make about such characters:...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Thomas Myron‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Fantasy Series - YA or Adult protagonist?

I plan on writing a fantasy series at some point. Based on what I've read, my automatic assumption was that the protagonist of such a series would be a teenager, probably around the 17-18 year rang...

1 answer  ·  posted 6y ago by Thomas Myron‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Two protagonists where one is dark - a mistake?

I'm currently writing a tale with two protagonists. One of them is a dark protagonist - that is, technically evil. The other protagonist is not evil. I'm wondering if this will cause the reader to ...

3 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Thomas Myron‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Male, but can handle only female protagonists

I’m trying to improve my writing skills, doing both original works and facfiction, but there is a peculiar limitation to what I achieve. Despite being male, I fail to write from a male perspective ...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Alexander Z.‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Does my protagonist need to be the most important character?

In my fantasy story that I'm slowly getting into, my MC Sirena is an apprentice witch. Her two fellow apprentices, Aster and Keeva, study alongside her under their High Priestess, and they all som...

5 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by weakdna says reinstate monica‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Is using a different voice for protagonist's narration and dialogue ok?

My protagonist uses a lot of extensive vocabulary and is quite verbose. The novel I am writing is a first-person narrative, and my protagonist is the narrator of the novel. An extensive vocabulary...

2 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Abhishek Dey‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A What if neither the protagonist nor antagonist wins?

This may seem like an awkward scenario for a story's ending. My plot revolves around a constant struggle of the protagonist against the antagonist's forces, and eventually the antagonist himself. I...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Jesticulator‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A How to turn an antagonist into a protagonist? [closed]

In a piece I am writing, I want to turn an antagonist into a protagonist. I know that numerous ways to accomplish this are somewhere out there, but none of the help with a smooth transformation. Is...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Xilpex‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Protagonist Goal and achieving it [closed]

My MC is a famous singer/songwriter who is bad at writing lyrics. Her goal is to write commercially successful, deep, serious songs. How do I design the character arc in relation to this goal? Also...

0 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Empress Molly‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Effectively conveying an unreliable narrator

I have been working on a post-apocalyptic novel for about a year. My female narrator/protagonist, named Eris, was isolated for almost all of her life until meeting a rogue group of survivors and h...

2 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by weakdna says reinstate monica‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Female Detective [closed]

I want to write a female detective murder mystery. I have 15 characters; 14 women and 1 man. I want the male to be the secretary for the, Cavalcade Detective Agency. He is well educated, charming, ...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Robanne Bix‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Too Many Goals?

Not unsimilar to myself, my protagonist potentially has too many goals. He's isn't a likeable character (which is how I intended him) so to keep reader interest, I would like them to become invest...

2 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Chris Sunami‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A What is the motivation to use a useless dolt as a protagonist?

I want to root for the protagonist. I want to feel the weight of his burdens so I can turn around and celebrate with him when he overcomes them. However, occasionally I come across a protagonist wh...

0 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by user2859458‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A What can I do if I hate my own protagonist?

So I'm writing a fantasy novel, and I have my plot fairly fleshed out, and I have my main players, my world is built, and now I've started to really flesh out my characters more. The only problem i...

3 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by circepix‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A How to make the reader feel like the protagonist is not a single character, but the group/squad?

Im writing a fictional dieselpunk story based on the WW2 era in a world of my own. The protagonists are two squads (one from the "Axis" and the other from the "Allies") with the characters within t...

4 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Hanilucas‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭