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Answer A: I feel like most of my characters are the same, what can I do?
Tone and intonation can matter a lot Personality can set a tone for a character. A hero and an antihero might do the exact same things: they dress up as guards, infiltrate the Evil Overlord's base with their comedy-relief sidekick, square off against the Overlord, nearly die, discover the flaw in th...
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over 5 years ago
Answer A: How do you earn the reader's trust?
This is a fascinating question and I agree with the main response: to explain something like that, you probably need to introduce the mechanism earlier rather than later. You left it ambiguous whether you were talking about a serial that’s already published, or a draft sent out to test-readers. The ...
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over 5 years ago
Answer A: What are the acts of a story?
I feel like there's a lot of talking around the central point rather than addressing it: The word "act" is sometimes used as part of a metaphor. This metaphor imagines a story to be somewhat like a play, with certain logical breaks in the story dividing it up into "scenes" and several of those scen...
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over 7 years ago