Character arcs are tough.
So tough, you probably shouldn’t even write them.
Unfortunately, however, there’s enough demand for character arcs, that we have to give you more (terrible) advice than that.
Thankfully, however, we’ve still got you covered.
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Josiah…is Daniel going to write a book with a character arc for you in it? XD JK
And Daniel, what’s your character arc? 😛
Nice job guys. Now I see the light. All of this time I’ve spent on my miraculous character arcs is wasted. I must go mourn the loss of time and find some random characters to tack onto my story.
That would require Daniel to have motivation to write a book first. ;P
Maybe he’ll have a character slope?
He /would/ have a character slope.
I have a very rare arc called an exponential slope arc.
It looks a bit like this: http://mathonweb.com/help_ebook/html/log/log64.gif
Oops, that link seems to be dead, this is what Josiah *meant* to link to. https://www.vitutor.com/calculus/functions/images/0_117.gif
Ah, yes. 😛 There you two go again. Excellent advice. This will make writing my character arcs so much easier.
Thank you, thank you. I can’t wait to see the impact this has on your writing.
Pure gold. 😂 *goes and writes character slopes*
Daniel’s slowly giving KP a new vocabulary.
😀 Character Slopes
Remember to apply the same advice for character arcs to characters slopes, so you have a perfectly good character for most of the book… and then they have a near death experience and decide to turn super evil all at once 😀
Now I need to go write that 😀
lol That would actually be funny if you did that.
I want to read that story now.
Um yes Sam, you definitely need to write that. Definitely.
*stops video* *closes page* *shuts down laptop* *turns off phone* *runs outside to think about my life*
Thanks for saving me, guys. I tell you, if not for this video, I would have blindly stumbled into the trap of making my character arcs slow and steady.
Dodged that bullet.
Excellent. That was a close one there.
Gosh, I should start writing character slopes. They sound so much more exciting xD Is Daniel going to write an article about them anytime soon?
They probably are. Certainly a more catchy term at any rate.
Believe it or not I ghost write all of Josiah’s articles, I am really humble and don’t want to receive the credit. But I will ghost write an article about character slopes by tomorrow, in Josiah’s name of course.
*adds character slopes to the KP dictionary* Whatever word shall come up next? xD
Begone are the days of careful character arc-ing. I’ll just slapdash whatever comes to mind and it’ll be perfect. xP
You and me alike are wondering that question right at this moment. And yes, careful plotting should generally be viewed as a huge red flag in writing.
Well guys, I would protest the absolute laziness and lack of excellence being promoted here, but I guess that just means I need a character arc myself, and since you guys told me to change, by golly I guess I’d better do it.
This may be the most meta comment in this comments section.
*bows* I try.
Oh my word! I missed this for 3 days! How could I have done that? Anyway, well done guys…very well done. I feel very equipped to write about character arcs. Considering the fact that I didn’t even know what they were before this video. But hey, you learn something new everyday! Oh, and we definitely need a KP dictionary.
“But don’t you regularly break the speed limit?”
“Ya, but I don’t get caught…”
Nice honesty Daniel.
I’ll need to get Daniel on that KP dictionary assignment. It would be more honest, tho, if Daniel was telling the truth about never getting caught. 😉
… Character slopes… Well, there’s a new one.
I kinda now want to write something that takes all of these reverse psychology videos literally. Just to see how bad it is. XD
Great job again guys!
Not gonna lie, that actually sounds like a lot of fun. A “so bad it’s good” sort of story.
Is it possible to find the scripts or just wording of these videos? I love them, but recently, my computer stopped playing most YouTube videos for some reason. Including yours. I really want to hear what you guys have to say, but I can’t…
Unfortunately a good chunk of these are ad-libbed, and so the scripts aren’t the easiest to follow out-of-context. 🙁 Hope you may be able to find a way to fix your computer’s Youtube playback problem, though!
“capital punishment should be done to all who brake the law”
“Don’t you regularly brake the speed limit?”
“Well I don’t get caught.”
I guess I just never need to be caught cause Daniel may condemn me to death for passing a semi on the highway….
and the manipulation Daniel employs to get paid……
Character slopes….. Someone said they were going to write a Kapeefer dictionary, add that to a section called “Daniels Writing words.”
Daniel totally needs a section in the future KP dictionary. *nods*