Activity for Doctor Zhivago
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A: Could I have a writing phobia? One solution is to try and write a story backwards...literally. Obliterate the very idea of making sense and this helps me at least to think in terms of creating and not so much writing...thus being called "not yours" or stolen. There is nothing wrong at all with creating in the mold of another but... (more) |
— | about 8 years ago |
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A: Making People Unsure which Characters will Survive The simplest way is to kill your main character in the first page. You can then play with time in order to make him your main character and then have people discover only at the end that the story isn't written from your protagonist's POV but that of a close be very much subordinate figure. Think of ... (more) |
— | about 8 years ago |
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A: How to make a mimicking character believable Don't make it a person. The best example is The Raven who only says "Nevermore." This is very clearly a very intelligent being and yet his lexicon is limited to not only one word but a "kind of a number of nothing" word at that. So in the madness of the human mind... (more) |
— | about 8 years ago |
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A: Have a tough time figuring out third-person prose I prefer to think of an either "almighty character" or a kind of Carnival Barker when writing in the Third Person...he can do anything he wants...and indeed he should passing through time and space, logic and reason...as mere impediments to give a wonderful insight into your story for the readers tha... (more) |
— | about 8 years ago |
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A: A villain that doesn't even know the hero's existence? The idea that The Villain knows the Hero that is coming for him does make for a much more dramatic entrance. One might as the author go so far as to put the Villain as a possible winner too...keep your reader on edge. Some readers might actually prefer the Villain to win even. The Biblical Tale of ... (more) |
— | about 8 years ago |
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A: Using "show not tell" while characters are planning for something that happens I would start by "showing" what the guards are up to in the eyes of one of the plotters...then connect this vision to the eyes of another plotter who sees the same thing...thus "showing" without telling (they simply see the same thing as a pattern which implies a weakness and possible escape.) To bu... (more) |
— | over 8 years ago |
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Why not God as our subject? Certainly there are many Science Fiction writers who touch upon the subject of beings supreme to Man...but always Man is central in writing. (more) |
— | over 8 years ago |