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Questions that involve people in a work of fiction, including character development, motivations, design, points of view, and representation.
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Should characters ignore questions or is that not realistic?
I was looking for good writing tips online, and a specific website (whose name I forgot) said that characters should not avoid questions. Is it right, or should characters avoid questions, like all ...
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Can you use multiple exclamation points to make a character sound energetic while writing first person?
I was looking this up, but couldn't find an answer to this question. Can you use multiple exclamation points to make the character sound energetic while writing first person, or is there other ways? ...
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Question about character behavior (head tilting)
I was just wondering if people actually tilt their heads in real life when they're curious, or confused, or feeling a similar emotion? I noticed that sometimes I write this in characters, but I've ...
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How to avoid harmful tropes when writing a white protagonist among a cast of dark-skinned characters?
I'm white and have been writing a fantasy world I’ve been building for 5–6 years. One of my stories follows a character (a white girl who grows up in an African/Middle Eastern-inspired region) who ...
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Is It Okay to Write Chapters of a Story Out of Order?
I'm writing the chapters of my story, and I wanted to know if I can skip a chapter that I don’t yet know the details of, and move on to other chapters that are already developed Let’s say I’m on ...
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How do I write a gay backstory when I've never been in love before? [duplicate]
Hey so I'm writing a book and there is a gay 'couple'. One of them dies (well they both die but the backstory is after one death) and the backstory is like supposed to be a memory of how they met and ...
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How do you write dialogue that sounds chaotic but actually tracks?
I'm working on a character who talks fast, jumps between ideas, interrupts themselves, and generally sounds like they’re rambling—until, somehow, everything circles back and makes perfect sense in the ...
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How to write realistic character dialogue in the vibe of The Eleventh Doctor from Doctor Who
So, I'm writing a character who's sort of like The Eleventh Doctor, specifically the very AUDHD, neurodivergent side of him and I'm not sure how to portray the dialogue, how to even begin studying to ...
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Would it violate copyright to mention characters and a single quote from a different book in your book? Would you be liable to get sued or worse? [duplicate]
As a teenager working on my book, I've noticed that my characters frequently refer to names from another book. I’m wondering if this could be an issue of copyright. The book in question is Keeper of ...
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Would a nameless protagonist with contradictory descriptions be too confusing for readers?
I'm considering writing a first-person narrative story with a villain protagonist whose personal identity is indeterminate. The story follows the protagonist gradually self-actualizing through the ...
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Is having a lot of characters a problem?
I'm currently writing a dystopian/apocalyptic book about a group of teenagers that get mixed up in trying to prevent the end of the world.
There's a total of 7 main characters - 2 boys and 5 girls - ...
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How often does the author return to a subplot without interrupting the main plot?
How should I intersperse subplots in the story? How often should I revisit them in the chapters? Many writers advise that we should not introduce too many characters in the first chapters, we should ...
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How do you come up with how a character looks?
When I am writing I can end up making all the characters one race or make them all look the same. I want to add more diversity and not only have characters that all look the same, but I don't want to ...
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How can a character find his origin?
How do I make my character find someone? I don't know what information or resources I need for the character to be able to do this (note: I'm not asking for ideas). My character is from a magical ...
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How to write a protagonist like Joseph K from The Trial, and still make the story compelling?
Recently I finished reading The Trial by Franz Kafka, and besides the excellent narration by Kobna Holbrook-Smith, I'm trying to figure out why the book was so compelling.
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