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@starshiness

I love that character! He’s not similar to me at all, but he sounds amazing. Definitely go with Arden 🙂

@karissa-chmil

My favorite type of character to write is a little hard to pin down, but I would say they are reserved, shrewd, and logical (in contrast to spunky, outgoing, spontaneous, etc.). This is actually most of the…[Read more]

@starshiness

Thank you so much! I agree; it does have a foresty sound, I think.

“Rosalind: Well, this is the forest of Arden.

Touchstone: Ay, now am I in Arden; the more fool I; when I was at home, I was in a better place: but travelers must be content.”

-As You Like It, Act II, Sc. IV, lines 15-18

XD (apparently this is what everyone on here…[Read more]

@kathleenramm I definitely agree that a subtle/covert allegory is far more powerful than an overt one, simply for the reason that in reading an allegory that is more difficult to discover (in the older sense of the word), the reader is forced to think through it far more deeply than an obvious, surface-level allegory. (There is also a unique…[Read more]

@elfwing

One thing that I think might be helpful is a combination of unusual phrasing and metaphor, for the reason that the complexity of the writing draws attention away from the all-absorbing sorrows of the characters, putting them into perspective but somehow also making them more poignant. I know you said you’re tired of cliché phrases to…[Read more]

@freedomwriter76

Thank you so much!

What kind of genre do you like to write for? What work are you most proud of in that genre and are there any that you’re currently working on?