Activity for Mephistopheles
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How to do reference jokes right? There is a problem with reference jokes in general, and I just couldn't figure out a solution to them. Here's a demonstration: > "Watch your step, there could be even more of these." > > "More?" ████ was still puzzled. "We haven't encountered any actual defense ever since we entered. No patrols, no... (more) |
— | about 7 years ago |
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A: Stripping the Main Character's Plot Armour? There is a way to achieve uncertainty: Everyone is a rabbit The prime example is Watership Down, a movie about rabbits that kills characters left and right like there's no tomorrow, but so does nature. Everybody knows that rabbits are nature's fluffy popcorn, right? Other examples include: All-gua... (more) |
— | about 7 years ago |
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The basics of making a "reason you suck speech" that doesn't feel contrived "The reason you suck speech" is a trope, that is described as: A character gives a speech on why someone or something is shit. And here's an example: > Well done. Here come the test results: You are a horrible person. That's what it says: "A horrible person." We weren't even testing for that. [...]... (more) |
— | about 7 years ago |
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Doing walls of text dialogue right Shakespeare did it, he did it quite a lot of times, but there are a few problems with it: 1. He was a screenwriter in an age, where we couldn't afford building enough sets (or cities that don't catch on fire), so dumping info in dialogue was easier not financially impossible. 2. He's sorta "outdated... (more) |
— | about 7 years ago |
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A: How to make my story structure less repetitive? 1. Set up your POV: 2. How our brains work: If the world is damn complex, then you can still use child characters , "I got teleported here from our world" characters , and "I have amnesia" characters (that one has the benefits of losing normal memory, but not stuff like muscle-memory), and the Ency... (more) |
— | about 7 years ago |
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A: I want to start writing again: original project or new one? I think, it fairly depends on how much you "remember" your original story. For instance, when I do battles in X-Com: Long War with long breaks, it usually results in a gigantic mess-up with destroyed SHIVs and corpses of my best soldiers littered everywhere. But that's just an anecdotal evidence, as... (more) |
— | about 7 years ago |
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how to write a rant? Rants and ranters are numerous and pretty damn popular, so I'd just like to ask about a formula or general tips for writing them, without making my readers rage. (more) |
— | about 7 years ago |
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Avoiding "kill it off for DRAMA" trope whilst doing it Why hello there, old sports. I guess we all know the spiel with this one, but I tell you anyway, using this handy-dandy step-list: 1. You introduce a character who is likable. 2. (optional)Keep him around for a while 3. Kill him/her off horrifyingly, and have the murderer bathe in his/her blood (may... (more) |
— | about 7 years ago |
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How to make "Joffrey like" characters for a "kick that son of a bitch " moment We know what I'm talking about. The feeling when the legal side of a story doesn't bothers us too much because we want to see Joffrey getting strangled with a string of sausages. So basically we want to see a character killing a hated one in the most brutal fashion possible. And all of this can free... (more) |
— | about 7 years ago |
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Tips for making writing move fluidly I think there's a problem in my writings, that I can describe as not being fluid, and lacking in smooth transitions. Based upon this, I'm interested in tips at shifting focus smoothly between paragraphs. Note: I'm not sure about whether the style tag fits this Q, feel free to remove it if not. (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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How to make good anti-heroes? Dr.House, the God-Emperor of Mankind, Han Solo, and so on, and so forth. Something is appealing about anti-heroes, for instance: Superman is bland, perfect and ultimately a bruh superhero, whose clones (like Captain Horrible Puns) are outright bad, whilst Tony Stark and Batman, who are basically the... (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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Weaving VERY IMPORTANT OPINIONS into a story without murdering it In Bad Webcomics Wiki, a place for reviews of bad webcomics, there's a common phrase: the "VERY IMPORTANT OPINIONS". > The novelists who endeavor to enforce what they are pleased to call "moral truths," cease to be artists. They create two kinds of characters -- types and caricatures. The first has ... (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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From a writing standpoint, what is the value of Deus Ex Machina? Deus ex machina is considered by TV Tropes to be a sub-trope to asspulling, and thus, often considered a bad writing trope. Now, unlike most other bad writing tropes, that have their roots in fanfiction, it has a nifty Latin name and dates back to Greek drama, (Deus Ex Machina, i.e.: god from machin... (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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Offensive aesthetics and naming conventions? So I'm writing a story that features an alien character, who happens to be a really "internet troll"-ish type with a somewhat godlike tech and a personal army of robots. He/She (?) is fond of Earth's history and likes contradictions, which leads to massive amounts of Earth references, especially off... (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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