Yuuza‭

Following up on my previous question, "How to make the villain's motives understandable if his logic is flawed?", how can I let the reader know that the lack of logic is on the character's side, in...

9 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Yuuza‭  ·  edited 6y ago by Monica Cellio‭

In a story I'm writing, the villain has his motives for his attitudes. However, he is very mentally disturbed, which makes the logic of his motives be kind of illogic to other people (including the...

0 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Yuuza‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by System‭

Or in other words, is the plot/story more important than how it is executed? I'll use as an example a fantasy I'm writing. If I boil it down in a few words, it would be "a kinda-typical-but-differ...

4 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Yuuza‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by System‭

I have a story where the protagonist, who is a warrior meant to be the story's hero, has several unlikable traits. He is proud, kind of cold, has a hatred for the people of the enemy State (without...

3 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Yuuza‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by System‭

I have a character in my story who has the habit of making philosophic observations about life and the functioning of things, or his opinion/vision about something. Although most of his observati...

3 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Yuuza‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by System‭

I have a story I'm writing which envisions some sequels. However, although the timeline and world are the same, such sequels are so different from each other that I feel I'm causing too many deep p...

2 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Yuuza‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by System‭

I want to make my art, to express with no limits. However, I also need to profit with it. If I sell my art purely, the readers might not understand, like or be interested in it, and thus resulting ...

1 answer  ·  posted 9y ago by Yuuza‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by System‭

I have some theories that I've contrived, some are philosophical, others are logical or physical, and some are just jokes about life told in a theory format. But I'd like to use some of these theor...

2 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Yuuza‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by System‭

Sometimes I have a great idea of sentence (usually for a dialogue) and it is just so nice, beautiful, epic, badass, powerful, or whatever other positive impression. However, sometimes I read it aga...

3 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Yuuza‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by System‭

I'm in a dilemma: I don't want my characters to have flawless, limitless and bad-consequence-less powers, but I also don't want to have my creativity limited by such rules and limits. In my case, i...

2 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Yuuza‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by System‭

I have a story I'm writing which has a villain that, in order to make him more human/developed, I gave him a relatable, tragic and/or disturbing life story, gave him plenty of reasons to be who he ...

4 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Yuuza‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by System‭

Like totally chronological (starting in the beginning of the world's story events and going on to the future), or in the present-past-future order, or another? Is there any specific time order be...

1 answer  ·  posted 10y ago by Yuuza‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by System‭

I mean, what exactly defines a flaw for a character? I know that the character's flaws should have at least some impact in the story, instead of being just a mere detail, but what makes flaw X bett...

4 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Yuuza‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by System‭

The story I'm currently writing is a framed story where a recurring-depression-suffering writer that lost his wife [killed] in a war tells his life story in a symbolical fantasy world. Throughout t...

1 answer  ·  posted 9y ago by Yuuza‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by System‭

In the story I'm writing, the villain is a tyrant who is taking over control of the world (a very small one, with only two continents) as he pleases. The hero and many other people are affected by ...

5 answers  ·  posted 10y ago by Yuuza‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by System‭