Timeline for I have a unique character that I'm having a problem writing. He's a virus!
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| Aug 2, 2019 at 20:17 | vote | accept | Len | ||
| May 3, 2019 at 15:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackWriting/status/1124327997861969922 | ||
| May 3, 2019 at 14:20 | history | reopened | Monica Cellio | ||
| May 3, 2019 at 2:20 | review | Reopen votes | |||
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| S May 3, 2019 at 2:01 | history | suggested | A. Kvåle | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 2, 2019 at 22:56 | history | closed |
Cyn Chappo Hasn't Forgotten linksassin♦ JP Chapleau user18397 |
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| May 2, 2019 at 21:38 | comment | added | zr00 | @Micah Perhaps the cliched body-snatcher doppelganger shows would be good for after the first draft. | |
| May 2, 2019 at 21:23 | comment | added | Micah | In fact pretty much every long-running SFF TV series has an episode where this happens at some point: it means they don't have to hire a villain, and also the main actors get a chance to stretch their range by effectively playing a new character. You might want to watch a bunch of them so you know what cliches to avoid (then again, you might want to not watch a bunch of them so you don't get sucked into their cliches). | |
| May 2, 2019 at 17:23 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| May 2, 2019 at 17:18 | answer | added | Ginkgo | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 2, 2019 at 15:35 | comment | added | DasBeasto | In the TV series Supernatural demons are shown to posses people by turning into whispy-ish clouds and flying into their victims mouths at which point they can take complete control of them. Sounds pretty similar so may be worth givign it a watch. | |
| May 2, 2019 at 13:49 | answer | added | XenuXervantes | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 2, 2019 at 12:35 | comment | added | Criggie | Watch the cartoon movie "Osmosis Jones" And then don't do any of that. | |
| May 2, 2019 at 11:16 | comment | added | Rand al'Thor | Have you read the Animorphs series? Your character sounds a bit like a Yeerk. At least one story (maybe parts of others) in the series is narrated from the PoV of a Yeerk. Maybe reading that might help you? | |
| May 2, 2019 at 9:59 | comment | added | skymningen | Also, this might be better off on Worldbuilding.SE (worldbuilding.stackexchange.com)? Just an idea, maybe you don't know of that site. | |
| May 2, 2019 at 9:58 | comment | added | skymningen | If the entity is undetectable, then it can't really be menacing. People will not see a commonality behind the different events. Maybe they will start looking for a disease, coin a new name for a new mental illness or search for evidence of biological warfare which made those people act odd. But as long as they cannot find the entity, they will not be threatened by it. Just like before people knew what the plague was caused by they wouldn't be afraid of a Yersinia pestis. They would be afraid of the symptoms, gods wrath, bad water or rat bites. But not the unknown causal agent. | |
| May 2, 2019 at 8:03 | comment | added | svavil | This has the vibe of both Heinlein's The Puppet Masters and the recent Venom movie. | |
| May 1, 2019 at 23:31 | comment | added | Chappo Hasn't Forgotten | One thing I'd suggest is not to call him a virus, since this risks confusing your readers: a real virus is a microscopically small particle or a type of replicating computer software, whereas your character is a "wispy cloud". | |
| May 1, 2019 at 21:34 | answer | added | A. Kvåle | timeline score: 11 | |
| May 1, 2019 at 21:06 | history | became hot network question | |||
| May 1, 2019 at 19:59 | comment | added | Alexander | There is whole genre of stories about menacing (but incorporeal) demons, or spirits who possess people's bodies. | |
| May 1, 2019 at 19:48 | answer | added | ashleylee | timeline score: 3 | |
| May 1, 2019 at 19:25 | review | Close votes | |||
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| May 1, 2019 at 19:15 | answer | added | wetcircuit | timeline score: 8 | |
| May 1, 2019 at 19:10 | answer | added | ShadoCat | timeline score: 26 | |
| May 1, 2019 at 19:06 | comment | added | Cyn | Welcome to Writing.SE Len. We're happy to have you here and hope that you'll ask and answer questions in the future. Unfortunately, the question you've got here is basically asking for story ideas, which is off topic. While the last question isn't too terribly broad, it comes on top of a lot of other questions and unknowns. Please take our tour and check out our help center and get a feel for the place. We'd be glad to help you out with a more specific writing question. | |
| May 1, 2019 at 18:55 | review | First posts | |||
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| May 1, 2019 at 18:50 | history | asked | Len | CC BY-SA 4.0 |