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Also also!!

A good rule of thumb to find out who your main character should be is to look for the one that changed the most from the beginning to the end of your story.

(Heavy on the "end", because their internal conflict should be resolved at the end for dramatic tension purposes and, well, said conflict should be introduced at the beginning. If any of those [introduction/resolution] is somewhere in the middle of your story, then chances are this one character is not your main one.

Explanation-wise, that's because if the conflict is introduced too late, the reader won't care that much about it [because the reader will have latched onto whatever first, earlier conflict you'll have given them], and if it's resolved too early, then the reader won't be as interested in whatever else you want to show them.)

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Me with my unwanted storytelling advice once again, but!!!

Storytelling is problem solving. All the goddamn time!!

Your story? It exists because a problem needs fixing, not matter how big it is.

This one scene? Same, exact same.

Don't believe me? Give me any example, I'll find you a problem. If I can't, chances are this scene wasn't working anyway.

(Small reminder also that a scene should present a problem, have the characters trying to fix that problem, and whether they succeed or not, it's gonna lead to another problem anyway that's gonna need fixing in yet another scene.)

(Smaller reminder that what makes a character a protagonist—at least in western storytelling—is their proactiveness. And you become proactive by, you guessed it, trying to solve problems!!!!)

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Understanding that you don't have to write out everything your character sees or does is so liberating and makes your writing so much better, believe me.

What the first post is describing has been a terrible habit for me, and the consequence of it would be that I'd try really hard to make those scenes interesting (because I knew deep down they weren't) and end up with filler that really didn't support my story or worse, deviated my plot.

People say it's easier (when rewriting) to cut down unnecessary narration than to add necessary one, but we're all different and I beg to differ: writing only what's exciting means writing what's moving the plot forward, means less "Oh shit I have to sit down and rewrite everything from this point onwards because my character had to do something while driving or else it'd be boring and now the dots don't connect well."

Also I beg some of you people to open an actual published book instead of just amateur works and to look at how it's done professionally. Notice how they solve the problems you have!

"why did you stop writing your story!!! never stop writing!!!!!!!!!!!" well you see the character had to drive one mile to a new location and the sentence "she got into the car" was quite simply my undoing

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"why did you stop writing your story!!! never stop writing!!!!!!!!!!!" well you see the character had to drive one mile to a new location and the sentence "she got into the car" was quite simply my undoing

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The stigma of self-inserts is so harmful to the creative process. Relax. Admit it. Everything you make is derivative of yourself, always, no exceptions. You can turn the mirror into tinier and tinier shards or you can make it as big as you want to reflect as much as you want. At the end of the day it's always going to show you inside of it. Pretending otherwise is stupid.

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reblog to give prev some of that good writing mojo

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Spin the wheel. That's who's trying to kill you.

Spin the wheel again. That’s who’s trying to protect you.

(If you have zero idea about the name you got, spin until you see someone you recognize.)

(Six months ago, I did a version of this poll with about five hundred options on the spinner wheel. For this one, I more than doubled it.)

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Oh my gosh. I just found this website that walks you though creating a believable society. It breaks each facet down into individual questions and makes it so simple! It seems really helpful for worldbuilding!

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Dark romance being that one genre I don't like but will still defend against fascists

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Low-key the Clex ship makes my skin crawl

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My headcanon is that Jason has dreamy soft eyes like those bikers on IG reels and it pisses him off lmao

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Actually insane because I won't read a fic if I don't like one of the background pairings.

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Crazy idea but we should start writing xReaders where the Reader is a canon character.

Like, girl. Stop with the hypercompetent Daily Planet reporter Reader and making Lois a bitch to justify Clark breaking up with her. Write Lois in second person instead. Smh.

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Actually embarrassing how I can track my ovulation phase by what I write...

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I was scrolling through instagram when I saw this meme and,

Yes it's a bit silly and very much bro-content BUT you know me and you know I'm gonna link this to Dick Grayson.

Nightwing is the natural and positive consequence of someone who could have been Batman but has Superman's heart. Bruce and Supes are proud of him. "He's the best of us."

And, at the end of the day, he symbolizes pretty well the lesson those dudebros are learning by becoming a better hero than Batman—one who got past his childhood trauma and learnt to embrace the light too.

Which... doesnt get us really far, but reinforces that I love each one of these characters.

On another note, I really really hope I live in a day and age where I'll get to see a good Dick Grayson adaptation on the big screen before I die.

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"A one-shots collection—" *shoots you in the head*