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A: What is an arena-driven story? Stories like Castaway, Gilligan's Island, Lost, and the such would be examples of an environment that is the antagonist. The MC has to survive their surroundings which is threatening their lives or making it more difficult to achieve their goals. In each of my examples above you have the MC(s) who h... (more) |
— | almost 7 years ago |
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A: How much dialogue in a first date scene? Awkward talks, no words, a night full of talking, all are realistic parts of a potential first date let alone a blind one. This also greatly depends on their personalities. Is one shy? is one aggressive? Is one talkative? Too talkative and doesn't give the other a chance to talk? Do they both have co... (more) |
— | almost 7 years ago |
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A: Effective hero journeys that don't kill the villain? No one needs to do anything. It is your story. There are plenty of stories without death. One option that could also allow you to go on with a series is to have it so the Antagonist is "Driven out of town". As the old westerns would say "This town is only big enough for one of us." You may not kill h... (more) |
— | about 7 years ago |
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A: What information about a fictional world is unnecessary? Only add details that are relevant. If the temperature point of -25c will play a factor for later when it warms up to say 10c, then ya specific temperatures may be needed. However if you only want to create the image of it being a cold place, you don't need to specify temperature. I have read some S... (more) |
— | about 7 years ago |
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A: How to figure out what my target readers are? The target audience depends on the kind of material you want to talk about. If you want to add in rape, sex, drinking, and detailed violence, you probably won't be writing a novel for 6 year olds. I used to read a series called RedWall when I was a child, basically an personification of animals that... (more) |
— | about 7 years ago |
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A: What do sentences look like in a rough draft before they are combined into a cumulative sentence? Editing as you write isn't bad but it's not good either. As you are well aware it stops your creative thoughts to switch to the more logical thoughts for editing. Fixing things like a typo or rewriting a sentence that maybe wasn't written as well as you would have liked isn't bad. But sitting there a... (more) |
— | about 7 years ago |
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Chants in fictional languages I plan at several parts of my book to have war chants done in the fictional language of my main race/species. Would it be better to write the chant in their language? Put the fictional language with an English translation next to it? Or is this something that should just go straight to English? I th... (more) |
— | about 7 years ago |
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A: Two protagonists where one is dark - a mistake? This is typically done in Anime quite frequently. Usually anime has a whole slew of main characters that each have their own tropes... and usually 1 of them are dark/were dark/converted/converting. I don't see it being off putting. It's more so the trick of making the audience empathetic to their pli... (more) |
— | about 7 years ago |
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A: Should I be concerned with my fiction writing containing accidental prophecies of real world events? This depends on you. If you want it published, you should look to do so soon... The longer you wait, the more it appears to be based off real events and not your imagination. As Mark said this isn't a bad thing, but as you commented, it appears you want it to be as abstract as possible. This would me... (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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A: Are lit consultancies just out for money or can I trust them? well it is hard to really assess this kind of situation, however, I would think that editors would not give out praise too liberally. Many people submit stories in hopes of being the next Tolkien, but very few actually are able to. It costs a lot to print up a book and make copies to then ship out to... (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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A: Should I bother allowing images (headshots) for pen names? Some writers put their image on the back of books, some don't. I think in the end as long as you provide it as a choice and not make the image required, you shouldn't have an issue. Some people may not want their picture up at all because they don't want their appearance to decide if they should rea... (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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Saying "The" too frequently Well, I finally managed to put pen to paper and start writing my first couple paragraphs. I have an issue though. I noticed that the word "the" comes up often. Well actually it was pointed out to me by someone I asked to read it really quick. I did a word count through this site and noticed that in t... (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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A: How to make a character's personality trully distinguishable/memorable? Characters are usually memorable due to personality traits. If we think back to all of our favorite characters as we grew up, you may even notice a pattern of characters you liked in comparison with their similar traits. For me, I always liked leader characters. Tommy from Rugrats, Leonardo from Ninj... (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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A: How do you write an evil character without making him "sexy" or "cool"? I really like this question but I don't think you will be able to completely eliminate the "cool" factor. Look at most horror films. They all end up commercialized for costumes and certain social groups tend to idolize them. I believe in Vader's case, his actions were not talked about. It was not sho... (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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A: How do I cover many years with little activity without it feeling rushed? Your example is kind of a bad one for this situation. If we did this, then, the movie like castaway would only be about 20 minutes long. Shows him being stranded, skip his surviving on the island, and then he is saved. You still want to designate time progression and time skipping without killing the... (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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A: Do men fall "in love" (romantic, sensual or desire) with fictional characters? I agree that it is possible to fall in love with female characters. I have on several occasions including that of shows. It isn't that I want THAT particular character, it's that I see many traits in the character I really want in a partner. This manifested with the right given personality makes it e... (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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A: Acronyms in Technical Writing I have most commonly seen it the other way around. > .... North Atlantic Treaty Organization(NATO)..... I have also seen it as: > .... North Atlantic Treaty Organization or NATO for short,.... I have not seen it done in the way you described, but that also does not necessarily make it incorrect. ... (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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A: Can I can legally use these song lyrics as book/chapter names? IANAL, but I personally don't see the issue... There are probably well over a million songs out there throughout the history of the modern era of music. Each CD has what 15 songs a minimum? If you were to go through every artist, big name or no name, each year, dating back to the first time lyrics we... (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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A: How to write a character that isn't who they claim? It's all bout the element of hiding important facts and creating smoke and mirrors. Not sure what your story is about, but you can have it so this character suddenly walks off when no one was looking and doesn't return. Gives them the element of being shady when really they went off for good reasons.... (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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Self inserts that have influence from your life I saw this question being asked and it lead me to wonder something.... It seems that self inserting your.... person is not considered good practice or should be kept to a minimal. So my question piggybacks off of the one linked with this in mind: Would self Inserting be okay if it has influence from... (more) |
— | almost 8 years ago |
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A: Short Story Outline Issues As What and Other's have stated, A short story drives home a point. It doesn't have many subplots or other angles. It's like a children's book in a way. They are usually short and only a couple pages but they build to a goal of teaching a moral or lesson or virtue or what ever it is the goal of the s... (more) |
— | almost 8 years ago |
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A: Is it a bad idea to adopt an 'English' pen name as an Asian American writer to reach a wider audience? This is merely my opinion as a YA(28) but I feel that you shouldn't have to worry about hiding who you are. 90% of the time I never even looked at the author's name of a book when picking one out at a library or at Barnes n Noble. The cover art/title and the back of the book was usually what drew me ... (more) |
— | almost 8 years ago |
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A: Thriller sub-genre Goosebumps would probably be your closest bet to what you are looking for. It is children/teen series that does a PG horror/thriller story. I use to read them a ton growing up and I hate horror or thrillers for that matter. (more) |
— | almost 8 years ago |
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Creating a story in which the hero(es) lose So I am still in the primitive stages of creating my own world and story, if I even do it that is. I am still trying to get a feel for where I want to go with it. The biggest issue would be that, my world would be heavily influenced from novels like Lord of The Rings, Redwall (children's series simil... (more) |
— | almost 8 years ago |