Almost skipped this, but it's too good to pass up. I'm not claiming to be an expert on any of this, by the way. This is just stuff I've picked up...
The hypothetical I put forward was more about letting the audience know if the character is lying. What about the opposite of the common signs of...
I've been thinking a lot about how to clue people into when a chronic liar character is telling the truth. Then I got thinking about generally how...
Remember to take into account how the world reacts to these characters that break the norm. Your burly male adventurer won't touch a drop of...
I have this problem as well. I generally go about it by seeing if I can work these new directions into some underdeveloped characters I'm working...
Silence, heretic!
I'm seeing quite a bit of "real people are never completely good," but that's just blatantly untrue. I've met plenty of people who would never...
Hey! Do you need an incurable disease? Does a character need to die slowly and tragically with no way to fix them? Well, have I got a deal for...
And that's why I was worried in the first place. It's such a story that's right there, but it doesn't fit in with the rest of the narrative! It's...
I have a few planned, one of which essentially unleashed the equivalent of a ballistic missile in the Big Bad's face. The villain is also fairly...
Basically, yeah. There's a bunch of other things going on with the other characters, but that's how her involvement in the story goes. This...
So, my main character's flaw is that she doesn't want to be who she is. She was born from the planet itself (Magical miracle nonsense) as the...
I seriously love this. It's cool, it makes sense to me, and the motivations are believable. Would 100% consume this piece of media. I don't know...
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