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Writing: Characters and Dialogue
Characters are one of the most important elements in a story, and dialogue is an effective way of conveying character. This category is for questions relating to characterization and the creation of dialogue.
1,049 Questions
What is a good name for Blaze Wizards?
You need to invent your own names if you're going to be a writer. Don't depend on some anonymous person on the internet to invent your characters for you!
Writers who copy ideas from other people can also end up in trouble for plagiarism! If you copy someone's names or ideas, then when you publish your story, they could claim you stole those from them and sue you for part of your money.
I use online name generators for the names of my secondary characters - the main characters. I take my time and choose special names from baby name books!
Click on the LINKS for character name generator websites!
If you're going to be a writer, you have to come up with the ideas, not some anonymous person on the internet. Writers are not going to give you good ideas that they could actually sell. Here's a link to teach you how writers get ideas.
What is it called in a story when A challenge that a character encounters?
A challenge is called conflict.
What are the elements of a tragic hero?
a tragic hero needs to be of high birth, he needs to have a tragic flaw which might be pride, arrogance or simply lack of insight which brings about his downfall.
What to write about fantasy story of a turkey that works at a pet store?
Write about a turkey who works at a pet store -- sounds like a perfectly good idea to me. You're the author, not some anonymous person on the internet! Plant your butt in a chair and get started on that poor turkey's story.
If you don't know what goes on in a pet store, start researching. Here's a link to how authors come up with story ideas.
What are some made up princess names?
Ede, Starla, Skye, Belatrix
If you're going to be a writer, you need to learn how to make up names - here's a link to a good name generating website to get you started!
Alix.
What are the names of all the main characters in Legally Blond the Musical?
Elle Woods, Emmet Forrest, Paulette Bonaforte, Professor Callahan, Warner Huntington the third, Vivienne Kensington Chad, Dewey, Kyle, Brooke Wyndham, Enid Hoopes, Serena, Margot, Kate, Pilar, Chutney.
Hope that helps :D
What is a good last name to go with the first name Millie?
Any last name that you like is a good one! Your characters are yours - you don't have to ask some anonymous person on the internet about them.
How many people would be speaking in dialogue?
As many people as the writer wants. You can have a dialogue between an entire room, but it gets harder to write after you get more than three or four people involved.
They change for the same reason everybody else does: discomfort. If a person - and a character is usually some type of person, even if it is an animal or animated object - feels uncomfortable enough in any situation, they will change so that they no longer feel uncomfortable.
What are some traits of a character?
there is all kinds of character traits there is sad funny happy and just they are like adjectives so i hope this helped some people
What are some suggestions for the title of a leader of a dystopian country?
If you're going to be a writer, you need to come up with your own character ideas! Do a little research into dictators and tyrants and see what some of them were called by their people. Father, Enlightened One, El Supremo - pick something that matches what YOU want the leader to be.
Asking people is a polite thing to do; however if for whatever reason you can't, you can do as many writers do and say at the start, 'All characters and/or places used in this work are totally fictional. Any resemblance to real people and/or places is entirely unintentional.'
When do you know how to use tabs in dialog?
You are supposed to use a tab as an indention, and indentions come at the beginning of each paragraph or dialogue.
What traits would you like to see in a male character preceived as a badass?
It's not what some anonymous person on the internet thinks you should write -- you're the author! You know what you mean when you say "badass" -- write down what that person would be like. Here's a link to show you how to describe people.
What do characters do for literary work?
The characters are the beings that the story happens to. Without them, there is no story.
When writing dialogue how do you show that someone is thinking and not speaking out loud?
You don't put thoughts into quotation marks usually. If you're using third person, you just write something like "He thought Joe looked nervous, so he told a joke to relax him." If you're using first person, you don't even bother to say their thoughts, because you already are -- you just say "Joe looked nervous. I told a joke to relax the man."
When writing a sentence with someone speaking do you start a new line for his speech?
In a fictional story, or something like it, yes. In a formal essay or research-type paper, no.
When does a hero get too powerful in a story?
A hero gets too powerful when s/he can easily get over everything s/he faces. S/he gets too powerful when s/he has no challenges and no adversity. S/he is too powerful when nothing/no one can face him/her and have a hope of defeating him/her.
The nemesis of the PROTAGONIST. Usually the villain in a story. In the Harry Potter books it is Lord Voldemort.
