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: How do you show an introverted, socially awkward character is kind? I have a character for whom three of their most prominent traits are meant to be their kindness/high degree of empathy, social
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: How do I make my plot more interesting? This is gonna be long before I ask the question itself. Here is a quick overview of my plot: In the fictional world named Slavaz, there is a great
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: Beginning a story in a bar, good or bad? Currently writing a novel about a man spiraling downward following a divorce, among other things. I want the reader to be grabbed by this man even
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: How to write a female character that is not just a genderflipped male character? Recently I submitted a comic book story to a publisher, and they criticized that the main character is basically
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: How do I tell my main character’s backstory throughout the book? I'm loosely working on a trilogy. Book One and Two are supposed to contain the main character’s backstory, divided by two
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: Character name change In my story I am writing in third person, my character is kidnaped and finds out his real name towards the end. Do I start referring to him with his real name or the
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: Hierarchies and Role Titles - How do come up with them I'm looking to see what everyone has used in the past to come up with hierarchies and position titles for your novels. For example,
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: A particular case of character creation: the "Inner Conflict" in Luke Skywalker I don't no if this is a off-topic question but the main doubt, in my opinion, is solid on the character development
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: Writing a narcissistic psychopath as a compelling protagonist I'm in the middle of writing a book where the protagonist is a narcissistic psychopath, and while I personally am having a lot of
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: How do I make my supporting POV interesting, altough he is not important in the story? I have one POV character who is not too important to the story. He is an Elf soldier who keeps a important
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: What Drives a Broken man? There is this story that I was working on, for an extended period of time. I have scrapped many ideas and drafts but I just could not seem to let go. The idea
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: How do I balance immature levity and flaws and character growth? I am working on a series where one of the intended primary draws is character drama and growth. I have an ensemble cast of
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: Structuring a book? So I am attempting to write a book, the first I have attempted yet. My current method has been to just write scenes that come into my mind and I have over 40 pages of
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: Writing a character that only the protagonist hears/understands (kinda like R2D2) How do you write a character that only the protagonist can hear and/or understand? I'm writing a story with this
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: First-Person Instability Hello fellow writing nerds. I have a series idea that I am toying with that has one character that ultimately goes insane (this downward spiral is brought upon her largely
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: Wizardry before Harry Potter I'm writing a book about the hidden wizard world that spread and broke because of the fear of being shown up and it's the first book that starts the series, the
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: Do I Need To Show My Character's Meeting in my Novel? This is more of an opinion or preference question but I was wondering, is it better to show the main characters of my novel first meeting
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: I abstain from using concise words in my writing, so as to "show" instead of "tell". Is this bad writing? Instead of explaining this whole practice, I'll rather give an example. In a scene
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: Does including a lot of tropes in a single idea pay off well? The other day, I was working on a Supernatural Fiction genre and I was stuck in a dilemma. I had two choices, whether I could
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: Wrtting Sci/Fi Novel with some Sumerian influences, how to bridge a lengthy time gap in my storyline? I'm writting a novel (in Spanish, I'm from Chile) based on Sumerian culture separated in
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: How to develop my reluctant character? I am writing a novel which is about a naive, good-for-nothing boy who is also suffering from low self-esteem. One day, due to some events, he gets some
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: How to write a "functioning" addict protagonist and it not get repetitive? A sub-plot of my story, is that the protagonist is struggling with addiction to alcohol due to past events (which happen
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: Can I have scenes that aren't directly related to the main plot but strengthen the relationship between two characters (which is a subplot)? I have some scenes in my novel that have nothing
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: Will an unrealistic character be out of place among other realistic ones? Most of the characters in my story are well thought out and have realistic motivations and backstories, as I think most
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: Character and world building in less than 2000 words Is it possible to build a new character and/or world in a science fiction under a tight word limit? What aspects should be covered and
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: How to identify a (personal) Canon Sue? Sometimes (as an intelligent species, and therefore creative, speculative about reality and so on...) we want to experience some situations which aren't
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: Fiction copyright, mythologies and interpretations of ancient texts? So, I understand that ancient mythologies and their characters such as Zeus etc are part of the public domain. However, what
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: A.I character that talks using pre-scripted messages. How do i make it seem more relatable? I have some character stuff im trying to figure out for an AI antagonist. In a game development project
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: How many character flaws can the main character overcome? My main character is realistically flawed with a few good points. I'm very satisfied with where she is at. As I begin to connect the
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: How to plausibly write a character with a hidden skill TLDR How to keep a character's skillset hidden, when it will be key in the story later on? This must be done without magic and as subtly
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: How would mushroom call mycellium home? I'm wondering for some time.. How would mushrooms fruiting body call it own mycelium? Imagine you're that fruiting body and after releasing your spores
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: Double lies as sources of conflict in a single arc My protagonist lives with a deep lie that causes internal conflict and pain throughout the story but it basically cannot fuel any struggle
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: How do you make characters change believably? Changing is an important aspect of every character and is what makes them believable. Yet, if you remember the ending of Game of Thrones,
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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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: I feel like most of my characters are the same, what can I do? If I think about the characters I came up with in my mind so far, I usually get a pretty big list: (Gyvaris (ENTJ), Martha
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: Secondary characters in character-study fiction How would a story flow if I made the secondary characters solely for the purpose of showing the reader how the main character has grown though
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: Can I conceal an antihero's insanity - and should I? I have an idea for an anti-heroic sci-fi character whose character arc runs from spoilt rich girl, to a refugee in the rubble of human
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: Alternatives to develop relationships without dialogue I have to come up with an idea (this is an assignment) for a story between 1 or 2 characters without dialogue and with a length of 90
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: Leaving wiggling room for your characters while avoiding contradictions So, I finally began writing my sixtieth or so first draft. And I noticed a small thing: As sunset came the sky became
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: What is another word for "character-building"? I want to say that the author uses Character A's "character development" to explore Character B. In other words, the author builds on the personality
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