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A: Should I avoid "big words" when writing to a younger audience? No. Use the words that you want/need to use. Kids have NO idea what is or is not a big word. Kids are a blank slate. Every word is big to them. So no word is big to them. This is why there are plenty of 4 year olds who can rattle off the scientific names of dozens of dinosaurs. Big words are not ... (more) |
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A: Can I mix one character's dialogue with another's POV in the same paragraph? There is nothing in your example snippet that made Paul or Mike the Point of View character. Sure there are some confusingly worded sentences, but you can easily solve that by zooming out to either a 3rd person narrator perspective, or committing to the POV of one or the other character. But if you... (more) |
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A: Dangers of being sympathetic to the killer Sympathizing with the killer. Isn't that the entire basis of any revenge story? You stole John Wick's car? You killed John Wick's dog? And the way I understood the movies is, you are supposed to root for John Wick. other classic examples of revenge as the main plot: The count of monte cristo, Ben ... (more) |
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A: How to write an inversion of a messianic trope? This is super easy, barely an inconvenience. Have a world with multiple multiple demons/devils all pretending to be a god and trying to gain power over each other by gaining followers. And they all tell lies to the humans trying to convince them that they are the true god, as their goal is to gain f... (more) |
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A: Writing a love interest for my hero The key is to write a person, not a pet dog in the form of a female companion / love interest. A person is a complex, with aspirations, motivations, interests, and a personality. And now you have this complex character, should she still be with the hero? As a writer, you need to write that. And wri... (more) |
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A: What makes an ending "happy"? Frodo had a happy ending. He stopped apocalypse, saved his friends, his people and the world, and then gained admission to the Undying land. Tony Stark in End Game is a happy ending. He completed his journey with a heroic sacrifice. Though it was kind of an unnecessary sacrifice, as Magical Marvel s... (more) |
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A: Compelling story with the world as a villain When the world is the villain. What does that mean? Society? Nature? Human nature? It really doesn't matter.. I actually think you are onto something interesting, because i am not sure if what you are attempting has ever been done or done successfully. However, i think there is a way to tackle it.... (more) |
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A: What kind of name should a fantasy author go by? Just use your Initials and last name G.R.R. Martin J.R.R. Tolkien J.K Rowling seems to work well for them... If your last name doesn't have a nice ring to it, just make one up. Or if your last name is too foreign for english language novels (by that I mean Easter, or Middle Eastern), get a pen n... (more) |
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A: How to organize ideas to start writing a novel? You start by starting. There is no other way. As to how to organize it, I like JK Rowling's approach. 1. She broke her series down into 7 books (1 for each year at the magic school). 2. She mapped out general story arcs for her characters. 3. She then wrote a lot of scenes as they came to her ... (more) |
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A: How does one write a misanthropic character likeable? A likeable misanthropic character is not necessarily a misanthrope at heart: he only needs to act like one. He is misunderstood. Perhaps just different. They could even be a good character who turned sour as a reaction to a bad break, and you could add a growth/redemption arc, in which to play this r... (more) |
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