I'm writing a fantasy novel about a girl named Morrigan who lives in a war camp and travels to nearby kingdom to compete in a tournament.She has 3...
One of my characters pretty much moves every plot element and other character in the story. But she's not the 'real' active main character with...
Lately I've been mulling over how inactive a character can be and still a) drive a story and b) be interesting enough for an audience to want to...
Hi, I'm a novice and could use some good advice. My book is in the very early stages and I just wanted some opinions on which character would...
I can't exactly describe exactly what I want to go for here. For me, the most impacting deaths are the ones that make you stop reading to...
So I have a slight dilemma. I'm in the beginning stages of writing a screenplay, it's a detective story, plays around with a lot of the old noir...
I was over a quarter of the way through the book I'm reading (Neverwhere, by Neil Gaiman) when my wife asked me for my early impressions of the...
About extreme narcism in character development. We all have some healthy and normal narcism in us. This is about situation near or inside the...
Here are the choices (all women): daenerys targaryen (Game of Thrones) katiness everdeen (Hunger Games) ava (Ex-Machina) Deus ex machina is a...
I've started working on a story set in World War 2 and in it, the main character is going to go into hiding from the Nazis. Her parents are in the...
Does anyone else do this - example below. I'm pulling together 'mood boards' for my characters, and using those to begin sketching them out...
I am in the beginning stages of drafting an idea for a new story. What I have at the moment are two female main characters, one character who will...
This may seem like a strange question, but it's one that I've been wondering for some time. In the current book I'm writing, one of the major...
With my story, I want the genetic ties between two of my characters to be very obvious to the reader so they know that the reason the second one...
Built on an idea my Ph.D. candidate son-in-law said. It would make a great near future Science Fiction world. But for the life of me, I can't...
Hello everyone! I was just wondering if anyone has broached the subject of stereotypical high school archetypes and if so, has anyone written...
I'm writing a story and have five characters. I was thinking of keeping their ages vague and listing them as being 18-21. I was wondering, would...
How would I explain this within the story? What would be the cause of her not having vocal cords at such a young age? I've considered saying that...
I DID NOT MAKE THESE VIDEOS. I thought it would be of benefit to other people if I shared this three part series. While the creator, The Man...
What is the most important part of characters besides motivation and a goal? Right. Character Arcs! I mean, would you like Luke Skywalker if he...
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