Making a character entirely relatable or sympathetic is also not effective storytelling. That’s too real and it can honestly make people uninterested in a character too. That’s what the characteristics of fascination, believable and interesting goals, and compelling character come into play.
Well, it really sounds like you either do not write or you write fanfiction or some such. I very much doubt you’re a published writer because you’re not talking like one.
Look at literally any successful literary work, be it popular lit like Harry Potter or the best novel ever written, War and Peace. They all feature relatable characters who have depth. Harry Potter has a lot of talent but not a family, and he wants a family. His friend Hermione is brilliant but annoying as hell and a know-it-all. Going to Dostoevsky’s great novel Crime and Punishment, the protagonist is in deep poverty and a murderer but still very human; his love interest is the same, she’s trying to protect her family but has sunk to prostitution. You might not agree with what they do, but they’re HUMAN. And that’s the only way you can make your character or story compelling to begin with.
If you make some character that doesn’t need to go to the bathroom and has no problems and is totally unlike the reader, the reader has no reason to bother with the character, there’s tons of other books out there. They won’t care about your fascination or goals because the character is NOT compelling, and the fascination and goals are yours and not the reader’s. That’s because the character isn’t human and humans want to read either about humans or non-humans with human traits. And it’s the same story even here on Blizzard, be it Jaina from WoW or Sarah Kerrigan from Starcraft 2.
Oh, and you’re a writer? That’s your opinion on how a character should be. I can bet are plenty of examples of characters that have extraordinary traits and little to no relatability. Besides, that’s how I see storytelling. It varies from person to person and what stories you read or saw.
I never saw myself becoming a writer in high school and college and I’m glad I’m not one 5-6 years later.
there is an overwhelming amount of evidence supporting the idea that Alzheimer’s is mainly caused by a lifetime of bad diet, it’s starting to be referred to as a third type of diabetes now. obviously not the only factor but if you eat and live unhealthy during your youth, you’re gonna still be unhealthy in old age. take care of your body and it will take care of you.
it’s very sad how unhealthy the western world has become and it’s especially bad in gaming communities where people make memes about eating doritos and drinking the poison known as “soda” and think it’s funny to live and eat like a total slob.
Yes, I am a writer. 15 years and counting.
So, being a writer means writing for other people and not just for yourself. Writing a good book is hard, but it only becomes an actual book once it gets published. You need to convince a literary agent to take you on as his or her client. To do that, you write what is called a “query letter” and also a “synopsis.” The query letter is what is on the back of the book if it gets taken. The synopsis is an effective, well-written summary of the whole book in 1-2 pages. If you don’t convince a gatekeeper to hand you the keys to the gate, you never get published, and your book ends up only ever being read by you.
So you write your masterpiece, certain that you’re better than Stephen King, and then you start sending your query letters to literary agents, and I guarantee you , based on what you’ve told me, not one will take your masterpiece and get it published for you. These people have 300 query letters in their inboxes – per day. If you want to hook a query agent into taking his or her time to go to bat for you, there are certain realities about what that book has to be like.
But, you’re way too good for that. So, go, write your masterpiece and convince an agent to take it on, and I’ll eat crow. But, considering that the internet has nasty rejection letters to Stephen King and JK Rowling floating around from before they were famous I doubt that crowburger will ever grace my plate.
Or, you know, since you’re explicitly telling me you’re not a writer and you are glad you never became one, maybe you should stop teaching writers how to write since you have no effing clue what you’re talking about. What a blanking waste of time.
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How in Christ’s name would I know you were a writer? Can i read your mind?
If you don’t know what you’re talking about, instead of trying to talk about it from any sort of authority, maybe you should just not open your mouth. See ya.
Goodbye. You know? Just to make you happy, I’ll make a book on my service in the force.
TMI dude.
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Hey, I’m trying to get into the writing/story telling/ animation business. You got any tips where to start, which internships to look for?
Hey mate, I respect people who deserved respect, not because of their age.
I met many old folks who stick to their old traditional way of forcing their children into an arranged marriage or pushing their dream on the youths - I am an immigrants, and my country isn’t exactly open-minded on those type of things.
Of course I respect old folks, I respect the wise, the gentle, but I don’t respect everyone just because they’re old.
What age are you?
Generally, entertainment of any sort is disproportionally connections and there’s a big degree of luck. So, you’ll have clowns like Lena Dunham succeed and good writers will have a ton of trouble. You’ll want to have a day job and do the writing on the side. That way, if the years pass and you haven’t gotten your big break, you still have a good resume and a family, a house, etc.
- Alright. I’m gonna do it on the side while finishing school.
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Seems like that’s Rule 1 of the human rule book.
By the way, if you’re in college, consider taking some writing classes. English and History are good majors to catch on and practice writing. Those aren’t “practical” majors that’ll get you a high paying job, though. But yeah, if you’re in college, there’s classes you can take that’ll help. Maybe go to the English department and talk to a professor about it.
MFA in Creative Writing is very very good because you’ll make contacts that’ll help with publishing. Unfortunately, most of these programs are expensive as hell and don’t lead graduates to a tangible job. Even the U of Iowa’s Writer’s Workshop, which is the best such program, doesn’t guarantee a job resulting from it.
“1981 and 1996 (ages 22 to 37 in 2018) will be considered a Millennial”
Mercy is 37.
So Mercy would (barely) be a Millennial by today’s standards, but would not even born in 2018 in the Overwatch Universe.
Everytime in line at an amusement park…
Everytime
All that awaits is:
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