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The Character Arc
Advanced Plotting:
The CHARACTER ARC
PLOT ARC: The events that happen while the characters make other plans.
CHARACTER ARC: The emotional roller-coaster that the character suffers while dealing with the Plot.
Understanding Plot
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To make a story a cohesive whole, every single thing in it must be there for a reason. Every single character, object, location, and event must push toward the ending you have planned even if it doesn't look that way to the casual observer. In short, every scene in the story should either illustrate a characteristic attribute of a main Character or be an Event that makes your ending happen.
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Literature
Advanced CHARACTER Creation
Advanced CHARACTER Creation ~ for Fiction
Hero ~ Villain ~ Ally
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There are three essential characters in every story. There may be any number of side characters, but in traditional Adventures, and Romances of every stripe (erotic or not,) the main conflict is usually, if not always, a TRIANGLE of complimentary opposites.
Translation: You could tell the whole story with ONLY these Three Characters; perhaps not with any real detail, but you could still do the entire basic plotline.
THREE Characters?
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I'm sure you're familiar with the names Hero & Villain or Antagonist & Protagonist already. Those are pre
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Fun fact: My little sister Stella picked out the characters on the preview image. They're all ones we use for playing when I babysit her. From left to right is Alan (an intellectual), Christy (a cheerful little girl) and Princess Rose (Stella's Mary Sue).
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I have no stamps because I couldn't find any relevant ones.
Luna's Links
The OC Exercise by lohkk is a similar exercise built for longer prose responses. Check it out!
6 More Situations by BluTehKirbyGirl
Side by Side - Your Characters is a short essay on the value of talking to your characters by ashcro85-writing
Start-Writing-Club offers many similar prompts
More Writing Resources
Fun fact: My little sister Stella picked out the characters on the preview image. They're all ones we use for playing when I babysit her. From left to right is Alan (an intellectual), Christy (a cheerful little girl) and Princess Rose (Stella's Mary Sue).
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href="http://fav.me/d5dbegx">Exercisea> by :devluna--rose:
href="http://fav.me/d5dbegx">Exercisea> by :iconluna--rose:
I have no stamps because I couldn't find any relevant ones.
Luna's Links
The OC Exercise by lohkk is a similar exercise built for longer prose responses. Check it out!
6 More Situations by BluTehKirbyGirl
Side by Side - Your Characters is a short essay on the value of talking to your characters by ashcro85-writing
Start-Writing-Club offers many similar prompts
More Writing Resources
Nobody Loves My Character!
On making characters lovable, in your story and online
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Disclaimer: This is a troubleshooting guide, and it doesn't necessarily cover every possible solution. It's based on my own experience, and not every idea may fit every character or work. Please use your common sense and personal taste when applying this information. Thanks for reading!
It's every writer's nightmare: your characters, after all the things you've put them through and all the months or years they've inhabited your head, have been eagerly displayed to the public and received an unenthusiastic response. Your audience has not been enchanted. They do not drool, fall hopelessly in love, or draw fan art in droves. They don't even pick favorite characters or whine for more information! You've failed. Nobody understands your characters. Nobody understands you.
...Wait a second. Try again?
Deviants who regularly post OC stories and art are lucky: their relationship with their audien
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Ayy, I used it. Writing Exercise - Character Voice
This was really fun to use and everything, it helped me look at my characters in a new light, it also helped me with imagining my character's voices in my head a lot better. No doubt this will make writing easier. Keep doing what you do, 1111/10
This was really fun to use and everything, it helped me look at my characters in a new light, it also helped me with imagining my character's voices in my head a lot better. No doubt this will make writing easier. Keep doing what you do, 1111/10