: Tuesday, December 30th, 2008
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were_lemur: Meta: Is It Just Me? - Am I the only one who feels a wee bit hypocritical bashing Mary Sues, when the ones that live in my head are just as over-the-top as the ones that the suethors write about? -- firefly99: TL;DR ESSAY ABOUT FANWRITING AT TWELVE O CLOCK - Character development in fanfic, therefore, is nearly impossible. Writers of original fic are praised for deviating from their characters as they originally stood, and writers of fanfic are praised for keeping their character 'sounding like Snake'. -
- shared_wisdom: Sensuality and Writing - Layering sensuality to your fiction can greatly aid you in that effort by giving a wealth of texture, depth and feeling to your prose. -
- nike_victory: The Sliding Scale of Extroversion vs. Introversion - A major factor in any human - or human-like - character's personality is the sliding scale between Extroversion and Introversion. Unfortunately, it seems very few people are truly aware of this and a good portion of mangled characterization is the result. So I'm going to explain what extroversion, introversion, and the sliding scale between them are. -