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Slay Orc 681

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In the world of literature, Characters are some of the most important aspects. If your characters are dull, stereotypical, overpowered, or a variety of other things, then your story can be an epic failure. It doesn't matter how well you can write, how good your plot is, or if you're perfect at grammar. You also need to have good characters to write well. In this section, I, Guardian1232, will be teaching you about characters.
One misconception of many newer readers is that their characters have to be incredibly powerful, smart, and attractive for the readers to like them. Actually, that is completely wrong and that is why many newer writers find themselves unable to get sufficient readers to keep writing. However, this also works the opposite way for other authors, especially 'noob story' authors. They often believe that by making their character an absolute idiot versed in no forms of proper speech and lacking intelligence and common sense, their readers will laugh like a maniac.
Next, many authors have difficulty expressing emotion and thoughts or they completely overlook it. Without emotion and thoughts the characters become dull shells lacking any form of entertainment, or whatever other thought you're trying to instill into your readers. For example, if you're trying to make a likeable character, giving him the personality traits of a rock is just as ineffective as making him without emotion or thought.
Lastly, I shall help you craft the perfect antagonist and protoganist. In other words, the perfect hero or villain. Many authors struggle with this aspect as they are unable to relate the characters to the readers, or they make the character uninteresting.
After reading this section of the guide, you will be well on your way to making your first story or improving an existing one. I hope that you will be able to use the knowledge learned from me and employ it into your writings.

04-Jun-2008 00:35:52

Aelfsaxa

Aelfsaxa

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[ Tragedy ]
Tragedy, the genre that I specialize in. If you want to know about tragedy, you've come to the right place.
Now, some people also call tragedy "Drama," although I think of them as entirely different due to Tragedies being generally unhappy and Dramas usually being about some sappy romance plot and some cheesy moral. Remember, a Tragedy is Unhappy, and a Drama is Moody. Moving on, if you want to write tragedies, I can help. However, the first thing you have to ask yourself before writing a tragedy is, "Is this genre right for me?"
You can experiment with other genres, but you have to write the one that you like to write. If you feel comfortable with comedy, the exact opposite of tragedy, then write comedy. Remember, a tragedy is more than just killing, unhappiness, and all that stuff. Tragedy is an extremely complicated, difficult genre. You must have a lot of experience in character development, plots, and you must be in tune with emotions in order to write tragedies. Just like how horror is not all about gore and boos, tragedies are not all about being sad. In order to have a successful tragedy, practice your character development.
Character development and tragedy are like architect and building. There is no way in hell you'll ever write a good tragedy if you don' know character development. Character development is essentially how your characters change throughout a story. You can have them start out as being nice and happy, and by the middle of the story, they should NOT ** the exact same. Maybe they've become cold and harsh, or maybe they're now evil. This is especially true for protagonists and major characters remaining in the story throughout.

04-Jun-2008 00:39:29 - Last edited on 04-Jun-2008 00:40:15 by Aelfsaxa

Aelfsaxa

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In my stories, my well-known character Sokreshel used to be a dreamy, happy young kid. Eventually, he learned to discipline himself and became more reserved. In my stories, you witness Sokreshel transform himself into the very man that destroys his mind. He develops friendships reluctantly with a group of people who have no contact with the outside world, and they've helped him open up. He was experimented on to keep alive only to find out that now he's dying. He loses his arm, and he becomes very sick. His nightmares become more real. By the middle of the story, he kills all of his friends in insanity, including the one person he cared about the most. Upon finding them dead, he becomes a mute and refuses to even talk to people. He goes on the rest of the story tired, alone, and almost defenseless.
This is character development. As you can see, Sokreshel changes due to events that happen. However, his story was more than that. He was on a quest to kill a confused man named Orson who wanted to summon an ancient race back from another dimension. I added some Sci-Fi and Adventure elements, as you can see. By the end of the story, Sokreshel killed Orson in a cave by pushing him onto a stalagmite in a deep pit. Sokreshel then learned about the invention of the gun and returned to the resting place of the one person he ever cared for. He rested next to her body and *hot himself.
In a tragedy, you must use a lot of imagery. Character development, imagery, and emotions are the foundations of them. They're stereotypically known as being all unhappy, but they're actually supposed to be very emotional. My story, although seemingly unhappy in the summary, is actually more heartwarming than plain evil. Do not attempt tragedy if you haven't tried other genres, as just having it be a series of unfortunate events would make it a terrible tragedy. Really, it's depressing how people do it these days, it's so tragic.

04-Jun-2008 00:39:33 - Last edited on 04-Jun-2008 00:39:57 by Aelfsaxa

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