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Activity for Allan Smithy‭

Type On... Excerpt Status Date
Edit Post #29433 Initial revision about 5 years ago
Edit Post #25854 Initial revision about 5 years ago
Edit Post #25596 Initial revision about 5 years ago
Question How to think of a good beginning?
I've been thinking about my story for a while now and the problem I've run into is that I'm not sure how to start it. It isn't that I can't think of how to start it, I actually have a million ideas about how to do that, the problem is that I can't pick the best one to use. I know this is something I...
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over 6 years ago
Question Is inner monologue a bad way to show character traits?
Is directly showing a characters inner thoughts and conversations with themselves too telly or cheesy?
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almost 7 years ago
Question Is discovering memories are false, a plot twist that invalidates my story so far?
So about halfway through the story I'm writing, the main characters discover that they're actually AI whose entire lives have been simulated in order to create an AI with human-level emotional skills. The rest of the story is about how they deal with this revelation and how it compounds onto their pr...
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almost 7 years ago