This came up in another thread, and I said that I thought it was topic for another thread, so here it is. How much do you know about your...
cruciFICTION -- The "character templates" referred to here are essentially organized character notes. They're not cookie cutters for characters. I...
"Little did he know that this series of events was about to lead to his untimely death...." Makes me wonder, though. She was writing about a tax...
How is an organized list of character details lazy, and how does it cause a character to be "cookie-cutter"? How, in fact, does how you organize...
I used to keep pages of notes of information on characters, to avoid messing up their details. I never liked using templates because I prefer to...
I never meant to imply that you should write to please everyone -- that's at least as ridiculous as not taking readers into account at all. I...
Pick a character to die and write a summary of how you expect the story to go afterward. Then do the same for the other character. Pick which one...
This is ridiculous. I write because I want to entertain -- and entertaining people necessitates reaching them in the first place, which means...
Isn't "limited omniscient" an oxymoron? I've heard it called "third-person subjective" -- where you can see into the minds of a few viewpoint...
I've just remembered! For some ideas, you could check out 30 Days of Worldbuilding, which is a sort of worldbuilding crash-course intended for...
Holo's profile says she's a chick. :/ Holo (and the rest of us) is talking about tropes, not actual people. If you don't know what someone's...
I believe that Cacian meant that cross-dressers think they are mentally women. Not that they're mental. (Which is slang for crazy, Cacian....
There seems to be some hostility toward the word "hostility"! *brick'd* Maybe I should consider using a different word, it does seem to be getting...
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