[ SECRET POST #5492 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5492 ⌋

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


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[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]


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[Meta Runner]


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[food writer/chef Alison Roman]


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[Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World]


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06.
(the poem "Tam O 'Shanter" by Robert Burns)


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[Sapphire & Steel]











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Comments

Re: Writer Thread

[(Anonymous)]

See...from the reader's standpoint as well as a writer, I'm not here to self-insert. I want to read the story you're writing, and if you have a specific person in mind who works best as the MC of the story, regardless of appearance, I want you to tell me who that person is. Why do they handle the plot twists the way they do, why do they say certain things and not other things, why do they have or lack the experience to handle the metaplot? Their background, upbringing, culture, etc has a lot of bearing on that, so don't skimp on it. If the reader can't personally identify with the character because of their ethnicity or gender, that doesn't mean they can't enjoy and understand the story you're telling - they can at least learn something, or see a new perspective, because maybe just maybe they identify with the character being a klutz or finding a dark humor in their circumstance or whatnot.

Consider how many of us in genre fandom love our shows and movies with extremely distinct MCs in terms of both appearance and personality. I don't identify with Luffy because he has black hair and so do I, I find him a compelling protagonist and want to know how he's going to keep handling the metaplot of One Piece without identifying at all with him in any way. Can none of us "identify" or enjoy a story because none of us are pink-haired teenage girls in a Japanese high school, nor 6'5" gruff bearded mercenaries? No! We love characters because they come off as people, and are compelling, we're not busy trying to identify with them and we definitely know what they look like. Might as well do the same in writing. Make a character a person, and if that means a distinct appearance, so be it. If the story they're in isn't compelling enough, no one will care anyway.

Re: Writer Thread

[tabaqui]

Same. I don't self-insert, I want to know what the characters look like so I can picture them in my mind, particularly if they are OC characters in a 'verse where I already know what everyone *else* looks like.