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Action/Adventure: May 13, 2020 Issue [#10169]




 This week: Short-Sighted Character
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1. About this Newsletter
2. A Word from our Sponsor
3. Letter from the Editor
4. Editor's Picks
5. A Word from Writing.Com
6. Ask & Answer
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About This Newsletter

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.

Conflict is drama, and how people deal with conflict shows you the kind of people they are. ~Stephen Moyer


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Letter from the editor

How many times have you created characters that just work together? So many times in the character group we create we often pull together friends, people who don't challenge each other. It's difficult to be that person, the one who won't allow your bluffs to slide or directly tells you when you're wrong.

Many times that person in a story is a know-it-all who isn't liked, at least from stories I read as a kid. Hermione Granger was always a know-it-all, but in the beginning of that first book no one seemed to like her much. She wouldn't bend the rules even for her friends at that time.

So who is that character in your book? Who is the one who stands tough on the rules?

Organizations work because people get together to create something. It doesn't matter if it's a small party for a Dungeons and Dragons campaign or a group of teenagers who need to save the world. But not all of those people share that same vision. Books need naysayers. Books need people who don't believe the world is actually ending. Books need characters who challenge that one prophecy as the only way to get to the end. Books also need that sarcastic character who's only in it because they don't want to miss the fun of the adventure. "Sure, but I only am going to show you that you didn't have it right." Books need characters who are defensive because this is the way we always did it, so it's the way it has to go, and also characters who think they worked hard for something, so everyone else should agree with how they did it.

Sometimes we toss characters together who aren't friends, who have to learn to work together, or people who don't know each other. Having them all get along isn't the best answer. We need to see misunderstandings and disagreements being resolved even among the 'good' guys. Back to Harry Potter- how much did Umbridge think she was a good and proper teacher, even though all of the readers knew she wasn't? She thought any ends justified the means, and worked to produce those ends even if they weren't done properly. Her certainty that she was right and no one could question her or her methods led her to doing many questionable deeds. She's a wonderful villain for a book, but also she can give you tools to create trouble within the friend groups that are making their way to their goals in your book. Who is it who would do anything to get to the end they desire? What happens when they're led astray from that goal, or come face-to-face with the idea that they might be wrong?


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A girl and her potential beau navigate the social niceties of future living.
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Keep us thinking. Thank you.
I hope to.

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At first I thought ‘Another virus newsletter’ When I got to the end it got me trying to figure out if I could apply it to my serial killer story. I think there could be some applications. My SK cuts his victims up and puts them in a cooler he keeps in his SUV. When he gets back home from his job as a traveling salesmen. He dumps the parts in the lake.
I think my detective might see a cooler outside a home and wonder why it’s there in the winter. And relate it to her father. Or something else
The virus does seem to be taking up the brain space of the collective, but I do always try to bring it back to writing. I'm glad you found value in it and hope that continues.

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