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A: Doubt about a particular point of view on how to do character creation >How can a creation of your mind (a character) do something that you don't imagine? Implications. I will explain! What I imagine when designing my characters is scenes, things they have done in the past, traumatic things that have happened to them, Successes, Failures, and how they have responded ... (more) |
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A: What's the difference between time-tested and formulaic? For me, time-tested and formulaic are equivalent; and equate to a lack of surprises, at least for a jaded consumer of fiction. I am a jaded consumer of Television entertainment. I know the formulas, often when watching a movie, hour long or half hour long show, I know who the villain is when they... (more) |
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A: Alternatives to develop relationships without dialogue Basically you have to use obvious body language. If you have only 90 seconds, I wouldn't try for much drama, and friendship might be more difficult than something stronger, like love or dislike or irritation. But there are many gestures and actions that indicate intimate relationships, without spe... (more) |
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A: How to integrate letters, in-universe book Snippets and the like into a story My approach to that is, for letters to the POV character, do not forget that you have a human reading. Mechanically, I indent the letter like a quote. (Say your normal margins are 1-inch left, 1-inch right: For the letter, I'd use 1.5-inch left, 1.5-inch right.) But I break that back to normal ... (more) |
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A: Is there a formula for creating stakes? Stakes come down to emotions, your characters need to have emotions or perhaps in the case of scifi machine characters, something that replaces emotion as a motivating force. +1 Mark Baker, yes these are "desires", but to me "desire" is too generalized. The emotion could be guilt; or romantic l... (more) |
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+1, that's clever. With that idea, we can make the MC's plan to GET something from the 2ndary antagonist with which to fight the others. So when 2ndary leaves with his stuff out of fear, MC's plan is useless, and on top of that 3rd Ant joins with 1st Ant. That would be a good middle-of-book crisis: M... (more) |
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A: How to deal appropriately with an inappropriate sexual relationship I believe you show, don't tell. This comes down to the design of the personalities involved. The older guy is the big problem. The boys in school can be just unaware of the law, or think (as many do) that it isn't "rape" if the girl started it, or offered sex for money, so they went ahead. And be... (more) |
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A: How do I know if my cast is diverse enough or too diverse? I definitely think it can be "too diverse", because ticking every box in the diversity matrix may feel forced and distract from the story itself. Diversity should not be gratuitous. If the story is ABOUT the trials and tribulations of a whole homosexual community, that may be a lot of diversity. T... (more) |
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Reopened because I think it is a valid writing question and answers can apply to other beginning writers. (more) |
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A: How to ensure that neurotic or annoying characters don't get tiring in the long run I would make A grow with the times. If he can see premonitions of his own future, and knows they can be changed, he can see that his freak outs are going to leave him without friends in the near future. A birthday alone. Nobody at his funeral but his brother. He can strive to change things. And lo... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #38376 |
I reopened this question because at least two people have answered the underlying writing question behind it. (more) |
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A: Basing my protagonist on myself In addition to Galastel's answer, I would add the non-writing worry: People that know you, including your brother and family and possibly friends, may read your book and recognize you, themselves, and other characters in the book. Correctly or mistakenly. And then take you to task for putting them in... (more) |
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A: What's "fair use" for borrowing someone else's invented term? +1 @Kris: ACTUALLY, it appears "Grok" is a middle ages version of "Greek" referring to the Greek Language. https://www.google.com/search?q=%22grok%22&tbm=bks&tbs=cdr:1,cdmin:1680,cdmax:1699&lr=langen I upvoted his answer. The Google ngram site looks like a useful research tool for copyright pur... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #38439 |
A rare exception to this is the planned series; like Babylon Five. The creator and show-runner was J. Michael Straczynski (he wrote 92 of 110 episodes in five years) and the series was a single coherent story planned to last five years. He began with plot outlines for every show of every season. (more) |
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A: I want to make two of my characters fall in love This is an existing answer of mine; which I believe is on-point. https://writing.codidact.com/questions/36209#answer-36211 Basically: Falling in love is generally a combination of sexual attraction, complementarity, and commonality. Friendship (or platonic love) is formed by the last two, mi... (more) |
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