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I am writing a realistic-fiction novel set in the USA during the Great Depression. I intend to use some stock characters to make the story colorful and to flesh out the culture of the period. Stoc...
#3: Attribution notice added
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System
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2019-12-08T05:24:45Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision
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Edmund Frost
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2019-12-08T05:24:45Z (almost 5 years ago)
I am writing a realistic-fiction novel set in the USA during the Great Depression. I intend to use some stock characters to make the story colorful and to flesh out the culture of the period. Stock characters are types of fictional individuals who have one thing in common with another, like Dr. Frankenstien & Dr. Moreu. They're both mad scientists, from different stories and authors but in the same category based on what their characters are. I'm not making ALL my characters stock characters, but I think stock characters would help my story because I think they make better sense than my own characters. Are stock characters still really useful to readers, or people of this century? Or are characters like this out of date?
#1: Imported from external source
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System
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2016-07-10T13:37:04Z (over 8 years ago)
Original score: 3