[ SECRET POST #3205 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3205 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Jurassic World]


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03.
[Anthony Bourdain]


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04.
[Puzzle&Dragons (mobile app game)]


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05.
[Fear the Walking Dead, Alicia and Nick]


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06.
[Hannah Pilkes, viner]


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07.
[Hetalia, Xenosaga]


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08.
[Undertale]


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09.
[School-Live!]


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10.
[Over the Garden Wall]









Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 042 secrets from Secret Submission Post #458.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

How to make certain tropes work

[(Anonymous)]

Basically just post here with a certain trope you're worried about and people can tell you how they would make it work. if you don't think it can work, at least explain why?

Miscommunication/Poor Communication Kills

[(Anonymous)]

Is this always unbearably annoying or does it help if there's a solid/IC reason for why the people aren't talking (mad at one another, grudge, stubbornness etc)?

Re: Miscommunication/Poor Communication Kills

[(Anonymous)]

As long as it's not convenient coincidence and wacky hijinks

If the characters acknowledge IC that they are intentionally not talking and then regret it later and realize they messed up, I think it's fine

It's the lololcoincidences that makes it unbearable

Re: Miscommunication/Poor Communication Kills

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah that's what I thought.

I have a character who doesn't want to talk to his friend about something out of stubbornness and resentment, and his sister frequently tries to advise him to just talk to the guy.

Said friend also doesn't seem to understand why his friend is suddenly distant and cool.

Re: Miscommunication/Poor Communication Kills

[(Anonymous)]

Actual, non OOT bad scheduling. Sometimes life just gets busy, and a conversation that really should be held in person gets indefinitely postponed. Especially if there was a tiff or any trouble before things got busy, this can be really well done.

Granted, it can be *terrible*, too, but there is the potential to be done well.

Re: Miscommunication/Poor Communication Kills

[(Anonymous)]

I think there are legit ways to do that, but it'd be a more complicated scenario than most writers come up with in their story. Miscommunication/misunderstandings become unbearably annoying when they're DUMB ones, like... ones that could be solved with five minutes of civil discussion. Unless the characters are themselves dumb and incredibly immature, that's not going to fly.

The best way (and the hardest, IMO) would be to create an argument where both sides are right, in their own way. Make sure it's not a black and white issue, but multi layered, where everyone involved is a little bit wrong and a little bit right but they can't quite make their viewpoints match up. Because that's real life.

Re: Miscommunication/Poor Communication Kills

[ketita]

Agreed with the anon above me. Half of the annoyance about miscommunication is the fact that most of the time it would all be solved with one short conversation if they would only bother having it.
It's also important to ramp up the emotional reasons why the characters are refusing to communicate, so the audience really understands what they're struggling with. It should seem to the audience that it really makes sense at the moment, their refusal to talk to each other.