Activity for repomonster
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How to tell readers your story is a re-imagination of a popular story? If for example, I were to rewrite a story heavily inspired by Romeo and Juliet, but placed it in a complete different setting. Do you have to say it? Also, do you mention it in the title that's it's a reimagining, or would you put it in the preface. I see it a lot in movies, but sometimes, they don't... (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
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Does symbolism have only one level of depth? When I use symbolism, I think of replacing something concrete with an abstract idea, but can you use these abstract ideas and then tell a story inside a story that's inside a story? As in: > Using symbolism to tell an allegory and use the symbolism inside the allegory to tell yet another allegory. ... (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
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What are the words that were used during Shakespeare's time that are seldom used nowadays? I would like to write a Shakespearean poem that reads and sounds like a poem written during that time period. However, I don't know where I can find an exhaustive list of words that were used during that time with the corresponding words used today. Could someone help me out? I don't want to use some... (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
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Characters speaking different languages Let's suppose you can only write in English, and characters speak 2 different languages. How do you put it into writing. Consider 3 different situations: Person A speaks in language B, Person B responds in language B and then talks to Person C in language A. Person A speaks in language B, Person B ... (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
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Adding lines to a video game script to futureproof a project Sometimes, video game development can go awry, so I want to add extra lines in case there's a decision to add generic questlines and new game mechanics. So how do you come up with a lot of lines that are likely to be useful and that can be spliced in several ways to futureproof the project? (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
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What are some techniques used to increase the melodicality of a lyric? Is there any trick, rule, principle for increasing the melodicality of a lyric? I want to write a lyric, but I don't really have a melody in mind and wish to just write a lyric that can fit a lot of different melodies? Is there a way to insure that? (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
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Is there a way to know if a metaphor is bad or not? > The rolling blades sank the ship. Here, in this example, blades is a metaphor for dangerous waves. > Above the noose I saw the sun. Here, noose means water. The water is slowly suffocating the narrator like a noose. > The noose slithered around my body. Here, noose is a metaphor for snake. The... (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
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Showing that a character is in pain in a dialogue Do you add pauses? Do you add interjection? Which ones? Do you misspell certain words? What are some of the tricks writers use? I don't want to say it in the descriptive passage. I want people to feel it while they're reading the character's dialogue. I want them to really feel the pain. (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
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Writing the dialogues of characters who are much smarter than you A.I. should have perfect English, but because they are mainly servants, they should be easily understood. Cyborgs, on the other hand, not necessarily, because they're augmented humans, but some cyborgs should be perfect and extremely smart and won't necessarily be understood by everyone. So how woul... (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
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Ensuring that character dialogues sound like they are coming from different people I am wondering if I should make the female characters speak in a different way compared to male characters, and I am wondering how to make sure they all sound different. What are some strategies, techniques, and ideas authors use to make character dialogues sound unique? I feel one way is to show a ... (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
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What is dark humor exactly? I heard that people who appreciate dark humor are more intelligent on average. I also read the following: > Willinger and her team said their findings suggested black humour processing is a “complex information-processing task”. But that's not true as some dark humor is rather simple and dull. Lik... (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
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Using symbols to refer to mythological figures Is this something you would recommend. I went to Wikipedia and ended up on this page about the Goddess of the Dawn, Eos And one of the symbols associated with the deity is: grasshopper. So could I write the following in a poem: > I saw the grasshopper, our legs bent > > as it appeared each mornin... (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
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Finding resources for sci-fi writers on Quantum Mechanics I don't have the financial resources to hire a scientific consultant to ask him whether my science-fiction plot is realistic, so I was wondering if there were any resource that teach Quantum Mechanic without the math well enough so that aspiring authors can write realistic science-fiction books. The... (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
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Is there such a thing as a "cinematographic metaphor" in novels? What I mean by "cinematographic metaphor" is that, instead of expressing metaphors using words, you use images that are imprinted in your mind through descriptions in a novel. Here's what I mean: We often say that vengeance is an empty thing. So we could have a scene describing someone drinking alc... (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
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What are some of the tricks used to end a verse with a specific word? I guess the answer depends on whether the word is an adverb, noun, adjective, or verb. When I write a poem, I often find myself with limited choices when I want to make the verse rhyme, so this would be useful as a future reference for poem-lovers out there. Anyway, as an example, let's say we have ... (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
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Avoiding repetition when there are two unidentified individuals > The tall figure was overwhelmingly tall. It stood in the corner of the room. The skinny figure right beside him sat on a chair. It wasn't moving at all. The tall figure moved to the opposite side of the room and started palpating the wall as if it was looking for something. The skinny figure then s... (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
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