I agree with most of what others have said here. As a rule, I tend to make sure characters from different cultures have very different names,...
I find a great thing to do is give them an inherent weakness. Most people have some neurosis or other that drives them to make the decisions they...
Personally, this would break my suspension of disbelief. A demon would surely think of much bigger, better and more insidious ways of corrupting...
Jungles are not all that lethal. There is plenty of food and water - generally jungles require large volumes of water to sustain them (such as a...
Personal investment. I have to care about the character and the character has to care about the situation. They need to be invested in what...
Structure. Songs have repeating sections (chorus) to ensure a memorable snippet the person listening to it can remember in future. Poems tend...
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