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Posts by CR Drost‭

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Q&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...

posted 6y ago by CR Drost‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&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 whe...

posted 5y ago by CR Drost‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&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...

posted 4y ago by CR Drost‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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