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Recent content by avatarblade2000

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    I am going to kill him!

    Since we're talking about characters MISBEHAVING: I usually flesh out a character in one sitting. I write up their quirks, drives, pasts, etc., all in a notebook completely dedicated to them, till I can't think of anything else to write. Somehow, inexplicably, I was writing out a character -...
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    Genre-Blending

    Sorry this took so long, but things have - kept me away. Everyone who should know knows now. Anyway. The differences are very slight. Defining genres is a science anymore, but I will try, best I can. Fabulist fiction usually has just ONE magical or fantastical thing about the plot...
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    Anyone want to read this poem?

    :O Wow. I like it. I like it a lot. To be honest, that's similar to the style I write. I gravitated to it pretty quickly. Keep it up, friend.
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    Genre-Blending

    Nice to hear from you again, sunstruck, I could've done with some of your wisdom later last year. My writer's block can only be curbed by other writers. :( To answer you're question, I've found this genre recently which can be loosely called "fantastical mystery" ...essentially thrillers or...
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    writing daily

    I write about thirty minutes of the hour I have for lunch every day, then I write for about two to four hours every night before I go to bed. I write till I'm tired of looking at words on white, then I eventually stop. Sleep is good. :)
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    Timing/Transitions

    I've found while studying classic films and books that the best rising actions are personal and/or personally driven, so that the audience connects with the character or characters as they succeed at whatever it is they are doing (empathizing, so that when the falling action comes the loss is...
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    Genre-Blending

    I for one try not to restrict my reading or writing to one set genre: I try to keep my material as broad as possible, so that I'm never trapped creatively by my own likes and dislikes. HOWEVER...I am a sucker for works that transcend and blend genres. That's actually what I try to write...
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    is christian fiction too tame ?

    Christianfantasy and sunstruck know EXACTLY what they're talking about. For those that don't know, take note and hang on every word. And to answer your question, yes. I can understand the reasoning of some writers and publishers of overtly Christian content: if it can lead a person astray...
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    Question...

    I actually write better action when it's the bare-bones description that screenwriting demands: when it's just prose, it's not so much action-packed as a convoluted mess. So far as plot goes, I do in fact have a hard time sticking to one set plan. It's hard to be so rigid. I find it...
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    How do you write? (Plot)

    That actually depends on what I'm writing. If it's something moderately big, like a novel, a play or screenplay, I plan out the overarching plot, but I usually leave myself some legroom when it comes to the action, or the dialogue, etc. If it's a short-story, I almost never plot: I follow the...
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    When friends are right

    I have two such friends, my two unofficial specialists on the two demographics I'm aiming for in just about everything I write. I'm super blessed in that department. My first is my story's spiritual consultant, who pinpoints just how out of line or how spot-on I am in what I'm saying when it...
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    "Theme"atics

    I don't think a theme is necessary necessarilly, but it does help me. Plus, I like to know I'm writing about something I feel strongly about, and having a theme in my mind gives me drive and structure to work with. However, I've read and watched plenty of genuinely great, enjoyable stories that...
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    A Question of Story Structure

    Perfectly all right, not really, it did, and thank you. :thumbsup: I have to say, I love my wiggle room. I don't have the same OCD some authors and writers do about their work - this has to happen here, this has to happen this way - but I've been told I have to on more than one occasion...
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    The Choice of Servitude

    I value everyone's opinions, particularly yours sunstruck. God obviously placed something on your heart to say, and you said it. So thank you. That actually has a lot to do with the project - the weight of knowledge on someone's soul - but I digress...more later. ;) Let me just say, there...
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    Facing Taboo

    Thank you for your understanding, sunstruck, even though there's not much there to understand. Like you said, it is an open forum. :( Since you seemed interested though, let me spill a few beans. Careful, they jump. :D The issue of sexism actually came up by accident. It was, however, an...