[ SECRET POST #2576 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2576 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Your Storytelling Pet Peeves

[blunderbuss]

1. For bad things to happen to a character for TEH DRAMA. If a character is hit by a car, that should have either happened because of plot reasons or it should affect the plot. It shouldn't happen so that Love Interest A can finally realise that she DOES love him, and now he might die, oh noes! Then you're just being cheap. (Yes, random accidents do happen, but this is a story, not real life. Everything should happen for a reason.)

2. If someone is agonising over two hard choices then you had better make sure that those two are his ONLY options. I fucking hate it when there are perfectly valid third options that they can at least investigate but instead the story insists that there are ONLY TWO OH NOOOOO HOW CAN HE CHOOOOOSE.

3. Two people can be in love and have perfectly valid reasons to be angry at each other dammit! And it can't just be fixed with the power of love or one character being shown as Wrong And Misguided.

4. It is exceptionally rare for a person or group or whatever to be 100% eeeeeeevil with no redeeming traits. People do what they do for a reason other than Teh Evilz and I will always love and fear a villain more if they're a human being rather than a puppet full of darkness. Even if you want to make a really dark character, that doesn't mean that you can't do things to humanise them, even if only in the past before they became a monster.

5. BUT. DO NOT WOOBIFY THEM. DO NOT EXCUSE THEIR BEHAVIOR. Being a human being capable of love and decency can actually make someone even MORE loathesome because they still voluntarily do terrible things despite knowing better. And, for the love of god, if you want to redeem them then by god you had better fucking work for it. And even then they will never be able to undo the terrible things they've done. Luke may have forgiven Darth Vader but that does NOT mean that he's redeemed, dammit! Sometimes a villain is too far gone to ever be worthy of redemption. Don't even try.

6. Dramatic irony is when the audience knows something that the characters don't. It is not when the audience knows something that the characters should know if they used their brains or goddamn talked to each other.