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: How best to describe multiple alien species in a short amount of time? I am in the beginning stages of writing what might be a space opera. The story starts in a society that consists of
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: If I remove the capacity for one of the primary flaws, is it inevitable I end up with a boring character? In this world, there are mortals (human beings) and divine beings (gods/goddess). The
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: Can there be too many obstacles in a character’s path? My current WIP involves a deliberate miscarriage of justice. I started out with three main characters: J - a young girl who is effected
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: How do I keep my character's gender a complete mystery? At first my protagonist was going to be a female role, until I started having an inclination for male characters and the fact that I
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: Does the main character have to be likable? I am often hearing / reading that the main character of your story should be likable or even if flawed should be something about them to get the
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: Should my main character make a ginormous mistake? I'm rereading my draft, and there is a part in the book where when the main character is helping others escape prison, she accidentally reveals
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: What are some signs of a chosen one nebulous enough that they can be mistaken? The setup: We have a fantasy world. A while back (like, 30-100 years; not really sure yet) a prophecy was given
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: Should I add in POV's for characters if the plot wasn't designed around them? I am writing a YA fantasy. There are three main characters, but the plot was entirely designed around Character
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: How to do a non-binary character? I'm currently writing a novel in my spare time, though i like how its going the main character is a non-binary young adult, I try hard to make sure it doesn't
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: How do you write a flawed character without it seeming forced, or making it painful to read This is more of a general question, but I am wondering what is the proper way to create character
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: Do I need to develop layered characters to write a good story? In one of the books I have on writing, the author says that in order to tell a good story, you need to create characters with
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: How to make my evil genius, evil and likeable? I am working on a story from an 'Igor'/lab assistants' point of view. They work for a modern day 'Evil scientist', Dr Levo. Igor has a good
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: When in the editing process should I edit characters and their arcs? When in the self-editing stages should I edit my characters? I have researched a bit on this but I haven't found any time
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: How do I know if I've introduced too many characters too quickly? In my book, I start out by introducing the main character, her uncle, and her mother in one scene. The next scene involves
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: How can I handle a powerful mentor character without killing them off? I'm writing a book series that involves people with various superpowers. One of these characters and is more or less the
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: How to give out a character’s backstory without info-dumping? In my story, I follow a group of characters traveling across a post-nuclear wasteland. I’ve written all the characters (there are
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: What would happen if a character died of an allergy? Ok, I know this sounds really weird. I just don't know where to ask. Anyway, one of my characters sneaks into the woods and gets bitten
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: How to write a character with an accent One of my characters is Russian and speaks English as a second language. I know that people with Russian accents tend to leave out words like “theâ€
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: How to construct the "inner layers" of a character: a doubt on construction of the psyche of fictional characters and bibliography suggestions First of all, this is a question that was asked
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: Realistically writing culture shock for this character? I wanted help writing a character for my setting. Basically, in this story I’m writing, I have a character named Christina. Basically, she
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: Introducing secondary characters The dilemma I find myself in is introducing secondary characters. Say, this character - a family relative - only exists fleetingly in my story. The first time
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: How can I write complex and believable characters? How do I write characters that are more grounded, complex and believable so that readers can resonate with them and makes my novel more compelling?
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: How to create unique dialogue for characters? So, one of my problems is that I have trouble giving my characters unique voices. They usually all sound the same. I may say that they have
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: How to add various social themes in the story? I'm working on my first novel, which revolves around revenge and violent cycles of human nature for more than 1.5 years. While working on some
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: How do you refer to someone in a formal essay? I'm writing a formal essay on a book. The book is about a real person, but they are referred to by their first name throughout the entire
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: What kind of plot structure or format does "South Pacific" follow? In the movie, "South Pacific," the (probable) protagonist is one Lt. Joseph Cable. His problem is that he gets killed
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: Writing an emotionless character? I need help writing a character that doesn't like other people and rarely shows emotion due to high amounts of emotional trauma? He would let a person die if
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: Doubt on the trope "power trio": what are their psychological basis? I will gather some non-standard characters in this question. Suppose then the Powerpuff Girls, Team Sonic, Totally Spies, Kanker
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: Naming Side characters So, basically, how do you name side characters? I get that you should give the main characters meaningful names, but finding suitable names for all of my characters is
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: To facepalm or not to facepalm How would you describe a facepalm in a more formal sense? For example, he rubbed his head with his hand. Or, he rubbed his temples. Basically, my character here
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: How to show a character with multiple personalitites? To preface this, I have seen the question multiple personalities characters speech in text and I feel that my question is different enough,
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: How do I create a mysterious character? What personality traits and ways does he need to be mysterious? What attitudes must he have to be so? How do I create a mysterious character? What
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: Characters with apostrophe names I have created a world, and one of the cultures has mainly apostrophe names - Vax'Ildan, Vex'Ahlia, Soih'Ym... How would this work grammatically - possessive and
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: How to care about the characters more than the world? I have a very well-built up world with politics, religions etc, that I've built up over the course of my writing. But I have recently
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: My characters parents are dead, what now? In my book, my main character has unfortunately lost her parents. But before the plot, I have nothing. I don't want to do an orphanage, foster homes,
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: How can I introduce a new POV late in my book? In the book I am writing, the first seven chapters are from the POV of one character. In chapter 8, I am planning to add a second POV character.
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: Writing Historically accurate diversity vs. Telling someone else's story I am writing a story that takes place in a period of heavy political tension. It is a fictional world, but based off
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: Is this character too similar to a real person? I’m writing this fictional story and based a character off this guy I saw in a documentary. He isn’t well known at all (other than being
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: How do I write characters that aren't just a copy of myself? I am finding it difficult to create fictional characters with personalities that are not a copy of myself. I'm having trouble trying
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: Are there any good alternatives to "a fire inside" of someone? I'm trying to express the idea of a character undergoing a realisation, thus feeling an idea along the lines of a "fire being
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