New answers tagged characters
2
votes
is it too cliche to foreshadow a character's future using their given names?
I've never heard Camarilla, but wouldn't give it a second thought as a name. It sounds like a name, and that is the most important quality.
That said, I suspect a super-majority of readers, more than ...
- 104k
2
votes
is it too cliche to foreshadow a character's future using their given names?
Some languages, like Turkish, have telling names, that is, names whose meaning the speakers of the language understand. Other languages, like English, have names whose meanings most speakers no longer ...
- 14k
0
votes
Is it possible to kill a character while in their POV?
Yes. I would suggest reading Tobias Wolff’s “Bullet in the Brain” for a classic example of this where the character whose mind we’re experiencing through a close third-person reading dies.
- 1,061
0
votes
Logical flaws with 1st person pov
Don't overthink it
The end-conclusion of this kind of factualism is the epistolary novel, a narrative technique that is intended to appear as a collection of written documents and correspondences. ...
- 27.8k
0
votes
Logical flaws with 1st person pov
You can alternate between 3PL (third person limited) and first person.
The 3PL narrator has access to Alice's thoughts and feelings, this is very common in fiction; and also quite necessary at times ...
- 104k
0
votes
Logical flaws with 1st person pov
From your brief description, it sounds like you have two likely approachs. The first is the one you already stated: Alice—Bob in 1st person present tense. This will be complicated by the characters ...
- 12.9k
1
vote
Logical flaws with 1st person pov
I'm sure you have read stories written in the first person. Did you actually believe that every one of these stories was written by the first person viewpoint character after the events? Certainly not....
- 14k
2
votes
How do I accurately write a french character in America?
French dude here.
In my opinion, here's a list of the stuff to avoid, and of the stuff you can do.
Probably avoid:
Directly using French words in the middle of an English sentence. It doesn't matter ...
- 131
1
vote
Can the POV Change
Yes, you can use as many points of view as your story needs. You can see examples of this in the Game of Thrones novels. They shift the POV many times.
Changing the POV with each chapter is a normal ...
- 12.9k
0
votes
How do I accurately write a french character in America?
It’s helpful if you know some French, but one of the best approaches to do this is through a linguistic calque: that is, you literally render how someone would say something in French in English. I ...
- 1,061
1
vote
How do I accurately write a french character in America?
There are about 500 questions on this site that ask "How do I write a character that is, does, or has something?" The answer to all these questions, and yours, is:
We cannot write your ...
- 14k
Top 50 recent answers are included