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: How do you get out of your own psychology to write characters? What are the best ways you find to get out of your own habitual thought patterns, personality, dispositions, and culture when
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: How to write painful torture scenes without being over-the-top I'm trying to write torture scenes but I'm not really all that confident about it since I've never written anything like it before
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: Could the cast of my book be more unique? Edit: After reading the question I've asked again and the answers I've gotten, I feel I should say that the descriptions of the characters here are
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: How to avoid basing an autistic character too much upon myself? One of the characters in my current piece is autistic. I'm on the spectrum myself, so I have some idea of what this is like,
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: Characters that take on a life of their own There are definite advantages to writing comprehensive character maps, but one downside that I've found is that when a character is fully fleshed
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: How can I make a "meeting in VR" less dumb? I've written myself into a sci-fi cliche which I have never seen done well: two characters meet in virtual reality. The gist of my scene is one
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: When do I successfully kill off an important secondary main character... in a series of five books? TL;DR: How much time and development is necessary for a character I intend to kill off and
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: How to write a good prison scene I'm attempting to write one or two chapters with one of my main characters in a jail cell. It's important to the character development that he is isolated
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: Forming a strong relationship between 2 characters How can one organically develop a strong relationship (father-son, to be precise) between 2 strangers over the course of a novel without making
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: Story without any character development whatsoever? Is it possible to write a story with one single character and no development of that character at all.
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: Will my readers find it hard to care/identify with a character who seems to lack human emotions? I'm writing my first novel. One of the main characters was born without a soul. This is her
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: Why should I try to create realistic fantasy characters? One use for fantasy is wish-fulfillment. With that in mind, why is there a need for realism in creating a character in a fantasy novel?
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: Resolving moral conflict Conflict is one of the most important things in driving a story. I’ve been working on my particular story for a while now, and I finally seem to have worked out
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: Rapid change in character A story I am currently working on contains a scene where a figure with a certain character quite unexpectedly has a change of heart, and I am having difficulty finding
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: Are these reasonable traits for someone with autism? A little info as to the story: 'Lily' was abandoned when she was young. She is a Deviant, a group of people who are born with powers,
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: How do you earn the reader's trust? Recently, I have stumbled upon a problem. After releasing an issue, I think that I failed to earn the trust of my readers. My analysis is that they did
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: How do I create uniquely male characters? In How to write strong female characters, Standback says that the best way to write a strong female character is to make her uniquely female, the type
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: What points should a "Character Interview" method for character building hit? What should a character interview contain to be successful where the goals are: characters with strong voice who are
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: Including disabled characters without "inspiration porn" We all have seen the headlines: "Touching Moment Where Autistic Boy is Asked to Prom", "Watch This Child With Downs Win Her Heat During
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: Naming my characters I'm writing a fantasy novel. The story takes place in England (1900's) No matter how much I research I'm unable to move forward in naming my characters. For example, When
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: How can show that my cold hearted character is coping with grief? I have a little contradiction in my story that may well be fatal. In my high sci-fi setting, one of my main characters
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: How do I differentiate between the "voices" of my characters in a multi-character POV? I'm currently writing a novel with 3-4 character POVs in it - two male, two female. Each have different
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: What should I do if I can't properly formulate the personality of one of my characters in my novel? In my novel, my protagonist joins a team with four other characters to go on a quest.
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: Is it important to describe every character of the storyline? Note: I am not sure of which site this question belongs to: Writing SE or Literature SE. If this question is unfit for this site,
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: Arousing Emotion in Readers Last Christmas my sister bought me a tome called The Book of Human Emotions (by Tiffany Watt Smith). I just started reading it and it got me thinking about how
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: Disposable Characters I've never seen or read Game of Thrones but I hear that the author is in the habit of killing characters off quite frequently. I have no idea what these particular characters
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: How to invest readers in a story that (initially) has no clear direction? The main character of my novel (third person limited) is an outlaw, on the run from government agents and living from
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: How do I show the confusion my character feels? I am trying to show the confusion my character feels (first person narrative) but am not sure what techniques to use. I have tried to achieve
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: "The more fleshed out the character is, the more the reader will care about him". Always true? I have a problem with the protagonist of one of my stories. In the story he's in, he dies at
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: How to make a character's personality trully distinguishable/memorable? Before anything, please pardon any grammar (or other kinds of language) mistakes I might make, for English is not my mother
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: Are different levels of character development required for primary as opposed to secondary characters? Primary characters would normally include the protagonist, antagonist, and maybe one or two
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: How to get a character that knows he's the main character to follow the authors agenda? I'm writing a story where at some point the main character is going to realize he is the main character
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: How do you write a character that HATES being born into a well-off family? We've seen this character archetype before: A character despises being born into a well-off family. ("Well-off" can
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: Is there any limit on how long a story can progress without the reader knowing the name of the character introduced so far? So far, I've written about 10,000 words or so and have yet to
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: How to write a death scene without making it overdramatic? Okay. In the story there's a flashback where one of the main protagonists loses his best friend in a battle where he was the only
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: How do I write sexual tension between two characters? So. This is one of my first projects, so I have to ask this. The story takes place in a dystopian future, where a young man and a young
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: Can the protagonist lose his strength without losing the reader? In studying writing, I've learned that you need to give your protagonist something - usually a quality - that makes the reader
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: How do you effectively develop a plot when you have a proper back story? I'm writing a sci-fi/fantasy story, which is arguably not yet a novel, and has general similarities with most fantasy
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: How do I make an ESL character sound realistic? I have to write an assignment in which there's an English character talking with a English as a Second Language (ESL) character. It is turning
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: How does one write a character smarter than oneself? How does one write a "genius" character? I don't mean a scientific genius, or someone who is a prodigious talent in math or chess or something
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