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Anything pertaining to developing the details associated with characters in your writing.

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When should you reveal the motivations of a villain?

As others have said, it depends. One device is to wait until near the end, and then reveal that one of the secondary heroes, the good guy who always saves the hero, is the real villain; the apparent v …
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Would it count as a story if nothing bad happens to the character anywhere in the story?

Kurt Vonnegut came up with the idea of graphing the happiness of the main character in a story: according to Vonnegut there are only 8 shapes for stories. There's a summary here, and an entertaining v …
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How do I emphasize a sentence without making it seem like the character is shouting?

Character A looked down, then looked up to the heavens as if praying "Lord, give strength". He toyed with the paperknife. Then he looked at Character B. "Blah blah blahhhhh blah blah blah blah", he sa …
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