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Edit Post #38545 Initial revision almost 5 years ago
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Answer A: How to "Start as close to the end as possible", and why to do so?
(This originally started out as a comment on Glastel's answer, about a fourth explanation, but I decided to expand it into a full answer) Write part of the end of the book , at the start of the process. This gives you a target to aim for, a case of "this is where we will end up, now how do we get th...
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about 5 years ago
Answer A: How do I stop my characters falling in love?
Give him another love. Does he have a girlfriend back in Russia? A fiancée? A wife? In any case, this is one of the aspects of his life that he struggles with (will he ever see her again? Does she think him dead?) and talks about with the nurse. Some of the nurse's personality traits might be ones ...
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over 5 years ago
Answer A: How to write dialogue for someone who is intelligent but barely speaks the language?
The other answers here are all to do with making the character come across as intelligent in conversation. There is a flip-side to this, which probably bears mention: Non-verbal cues. Consider the following scene: > Protagonist A is waiting for Character B in a café, reading a newspaper to pass the ...
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over 6 years ago