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| location | Sussex, WI | |
| age | 28 | |
| visits | member for | 2 years, 5 months |
| seen | Aug 12 '11 at 15:13 | |
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I am a husband and a father of one (with another on the way). I'm a writer, and I also love Go (the game). Currently, my full-time job is in a factory in Wisconsin, but that's definitely not the longterm plan.
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Dec 6 |
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What is the difference between writing in the first and the third person? This is a very interesting comment on first person. I've only read a few first-person novels, and they were more of a "diary" type that actually did leave me emotionally invested in the narrator. But my experience is otherwise limited, except to my own failed attempts at writing from first (which ended much like yours). Thank you! |
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Dec 6 |
awarded | Scholar |
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Dec 6 |
accepted | How does one implement effective foreshadowing? |
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Dec 5 |
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How does one implement effective foreshadowing? You made me think of another question: What's the difference between foreshadowing and what characters think will happen? How can both of those be used effectively together? If a character thinks X will happen, but Y actually happens in the end, then how do we foreshadow Y in the midst of the character preparing for X, and so on? |
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Dec 5 |
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How do you map out your storyline? Definitely this. If you number your index cards, you can then shuffle them and read through, too, just to see if there are any connections between scenes you might have missed. They're also a good starting point if you want to later flesh out a larger outline or input them into a program like Scrivener. |
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Dec 5 |
answered | What is the difference between writing in the first and the third person? |
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Dec 5 |
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Avoiding Deus Ex Machina resolutions? Agreed. I don't think there's anything wrong with a Deus Ex Machina in the first draft if you get stuck and its a really inventive way to get the characters out of a bind. So long as the writer goes back and fixes it later on, so that it's not longer a DXM by the final revision. The reader should always be left with the feeling that this was being led up to from the very start. |
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Dec 5 |
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How can I write an attention-grabbing first line? +1: Writing the story first is exactly what the authors at Writing Excuses recommend. I think most first chapters were written to be thrown out. We only know how to effectively begin once we know where the story ends. And I imagine that's true for the first line, too. |
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Dec 5 |
answered | How to switch pov characters mid-scene without jarring the reader? |
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Dec 5 |
awarded | Supporter |
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Dec 5 |
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Character Development - How much is too much? I would like to emphasize your point that character development is central to the story. I think that part of what Randomman159 has probably experienced is not only "bad character development" but also authors who have chosen to include weak scenes into their stories. Every scene should be important to character development, even if in small ways. This is hard to gauge as a writer, because we can become attached to certain scenes that we like, even if they're not very important. This is probably part of a lesson in that old saying: Kill your darlings! |
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Dec 5 |
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How does one implement effective foreshadowing? Your comments are definitely helpful for an omniscient third-person viewpoint, or even a first-person "memoir" of sorts, but considering that the most popular viewpoint today (and the one I write in the most) is limited third-person, I wonder especially how one effectively foreshadows from that viewpoint. Saying something like "He'd never taste the whiskey again" definitely jumps out of the limited view. |
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Dec 4 |
awarded | Student |
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Dec 4 |
asked | How does one implement effective foreshadowing? |
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Dec 4 |
awarded | Editor |
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Dec 4 |
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How to name the characters of your story? added 1140 characters in body |
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Dec 4 |
answered | How to name the characters of your story? |
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Dec 4 |
answered | What are some ways to get to know your characters? |
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Dec 4 |
answered | Good sites for descriptions/rules of different genres? |
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Dec 4 |
answered | What are good reads about writing? |
