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@northerner Yes, please survive the weak. The world needs your writing. 😛
@christi-eaton Please don’t die. We don’t have any forum doctors to help you anymore.
@daeus *cough* Have fun…
@ethryndal No goals? I applaud you and your freedom. 😀

@kate-flournoy Okay, now I’ve seen it. Now, let me say something very quietly. !!!!!!!HOW COULD THEY POSSIBLY DO THAT????? The main characters can’t….they can’t… *smeagol voice* *throws rock at Bilbo* Oh, it’s against the rules!

@overcomer May the force be with you.

@arella-noreen @overcomer @anyone else I’m back to it.

@overcomer I call this meeting under recess. I’ve got to eat something.

@overcomer I’ve always wanted to be on the council. 😛

@overcomer Yup yup!

@overcomer @jess @daeus @kate-flournoy @winter-rose @northerner @ethryndal @r-j-wordsmith @graciegirl I’ll be writing/copying/typing up stuff for about a half-an-hour.

@kina-lamb *Let’s see…how late can I be in replying??? Hmmm* 😛 Sorry.
Ah, yes. Barbara Manatee. And Hairbrush.
Ummm…I can’t seem to think of anything immediately… I must have went around wearing a protective suit of armor for most of my life and just can’t remember that being the case. 😛
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@kate-flournoy Ah–I missed your original comment saying it’s Method #1. I think it depends on how you view it. Now that I think about it a bit more, they probably are both versions of Method #1. From a plot-based standpoint, they’re more Method 2, but from a theme-standpoint they’re likely both Method 1. Which is actually a really nice way of…[Read more]

@jane-maree Something like that could work. You could also try the Lord-of-the-Rings method of making another figure under that villain a more prominent villain for the heroes to have to fight against, a la Saruman or Gollum. There is a place for the overlord character type to remain bland as long as the focus isn’t really on him as a villain.

@hope Ah; okay. He probably does have a bit of a tempting role, then, even if he is more solidly foil than tempter.

@overcomer This is really fun! I really like it! For some reason I really love the part where the peddler decides to try and help because ‘people said he was clever’. That was a great snippet of character development and really made me believe he’d had a life before this story. I don’t usually see that in fairytale stories like this. 🙂

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@hope Ah; I like that. So they’re not only foils with the main theme, but appear to be opposites with what might be a major or minor theme of power. He sounds the most like a foil to me. He isn’t an ultimate foil with regards to the primary theme, but if he’s an ultimate foil with regards to another theme, he can still function as the best…[Read more]

@kate-flournoy Ah; nice. I like that. Moving characters from extremes to a middle ground is a really good way of implementing Method #2.

Ah; nice. I like that. Moving characters from extremes to a middle ground is a really good way of implementing Method #2.

@jane-maree My recommendation would be to figure out what chain of events will lead the protagonist from the inciting event to the first plot point, and then use those to structure that area. Also possibly use that period to develop your characters more before throwing them out into the fray. K.M. Weiland wrote a post about this several years back…[Read more]