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writethisfanficHow is your writing going or not going today??
~ It's going great!
~ It's going.
~ It's slow going...
~ It's going nowhere...
~ It's gone.
Discussion topic...let's talk about describing characters and I don't mean hair and eye color or build....
When you refer to one character by another character how do you do it? I ask because I recently read a fic where one particular character was constantly referred to using the same phrase over and over and over. It was good the first time and would have been fine twice or three times throughout the *whole* fic, which was quite long. But as you can imagine, it became quite tedious to see it over and over and over.
I'd much rather see the character's name more often then, say, "the redhead" too many times when referring to Ginny or Ron from the Harry Potter series.
Also when referring to other characters, think about how the point-of-view character is going to think of or refer to another character. For example, in Harry Potter, Harry's best friend Ron does not think of or refer to Harry as 'the boy who lived.' He thinks of Harry as Harry or his best mate.
Do you see this in fic? Are you guilty of it yourself?
~ It's going great!
~ It's going.
~ It's slow going...
~ It's going nowhere...
~ It's gone.
Discussion topic...let's talk about describing characters and I don't mean hair and eye color or build....
When you refer to one character by another character how do you do it? I ask because I recently read a fic where one particular character was constantly referred to using the same phrase over and over and over. It was good the first time and would have been fine twice or three times throughout the *whole* fic, which was quite long. But as you can imagine, it became quite tedious to see it over and over and over.
I'd much rather see the character's name more often then, say, "the redhead" too many times when referring to Ginny or Ron from the Harry Potter series.
Also when referring to other characters, think about how the point-of-view character is going to think of or refer to another character. For example, in Harry Potter, Harry's best friend Ron does not think of or refer to Harry as 'the boy who lived.' He thinks of Harry as Harry or his best mate.
Do you see this in fic? Are you guilty of it yourself?
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