Activity for Ice-9
| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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| Edit | Post #10205 | Initial revision | — | about 5 years ago |
| Edit | Post #10118 | Initial revision | — | about 5 years ago |
| Edit | Post #9975 | Initial revision | — | about 5 years ago |
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Does this dream sequence work in my introduction? I'm writing the introduction to a story. The intro starts with a dream, then the main character wakes up, and then he and one of the secondary characters have a conversation while waiting for a bus. The dream is extremely different from reality and so I wanted to have the main character being jolted ... (more) |
— | over 10 years ago |
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Should I highlight or downplay a character's quirk to make her seem more odd? In a visual novel my friend and I are writing, I created a female character who is obsessed with making furniture out of (living) people. Yeah, it's weird, but everyone in the story has their quirks. In the story, a bunch of social pariahs are trapped together in a hotel. She's one of the characters,... (more) |
— | over 10 years ago |
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How do I make an ESL character sound realistic? I have to write an assignment in which there's an English character talking with a English as a Second Language (ESL) character. It is turning out really, really badly. I have a general idea of what the characters need to say to each other to advance the plot, but I can't get the characters to sound ... (more) |
— | almost 11 years ago |