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Tagged with character-development child-characters
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What should I do when I keep thinking that a concept of a character is boring?
The thing I usually focus on in my story are the characters. They are the ones I can do, but at the same time not. I had a concept of a character but I sometimes think that they are too generic. ...
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How do I decide my characters' relationships?
When I want to make character relationships, I include the theme of family/siblings, be it in a good or bad relationship. I want to use it to help deepen the characters and the plot.
I have trouble ...
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How can I make a character's dialouge sound smart?
I have an intelligent character. He's basically there just for comic relief, but also helps the MC.
One of the special things about him is his dialogue. He speaks usually out of annoyance, like when ...
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Coulrophobia: the fear of clowns [closed]
Can a child who has been sexually harassed by clowns be said to have 'coulrophobia: the fear of clowns' because of the fear and trauma she is undergoing?
I mean to ask if the word 'coulrophobia' can ...
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Character Arcs - What if the character doesn't overcome the big lie, flaws or wounds?
I've been reading a lot of books about plot and character arcs. Most structures—and I believe this is generally good and true—require that the character come back from their journeys changed, usually ...
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Writing a character who is going through a civilizing process without overdoing it?
In my planned novel the main character is essentially from a less technologically advanced society and is learning about the "civilized world" beyond their village. He has above average intelligence, ...
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Making him into a bully (how to show mild violence)
Joe is the worst. Nobody likes him, not even the so-called friends he teams up with at school, filling other students with terror. He's sarcastic, nasty, and a bit of a racist, and especially anti-...
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How to get my characters' emotions out of the way so I can get on with the plot?
Setup: 18 kids (ages 2-14) from 1995 America time travel to Ancient Egypt just before the Exodus. The MC knew this would happen (or thought she knew) and told people, but no one believed her. Now ...
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How can I really drive home a character not being able to hold it together in the wake of repeated trauma?
A character in my story is supposed to be falling apart, for many reasons:
He's 16 and is killing people, in a gladiatorial setting, of a similar age.
He already died (possibly a few times), but he ...
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Is it annoying if you write a character getting in trouble often, even if it's not their fault?
I have this girl in my story, who is around 12 years old, who is the main character of the story, or one of the main characters. She is captured by the bad guys very often, and I fear this might get ...
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Writing the same character in two different perspectives?
In a novel I am writing, there are three main characters. One a 16-year-old, another an 11-year-old, and a third a 12-year-old. The story is in first person, being told from their three perspectives. ...
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How can I develop a whole personality for my characters in my fictional story from personality traits
How can I give the 4 children in my fictional story personality traits? One is a bossy 12 year old girl, one is a 11 year old girl that thinks that life is unfair, one is a 12 year old problem solving ...
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Forming a strong relationship between 2 characters
How can one organically develop a strong relationship (father-son, to be precise) between 2 strangers over the course of a novel without making it seem contrived?
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