Reviewing Comedians: My First Comedy Show
I attended the Stand Up With Women event presented by Latitude Festival & ActionAid UK.
I attended the Stand Up With Women event presented by Latitude Festival & ActionAid UK.
There are as many ways to create character profiles are there are ways to fail at untying a Gordian knot. So, I’ll be Alexander the Great and just slice the thing in half.
Theme gets overlooked a lot, and I entirely blame the educational system and English classes destroying books like they hold the secrets of the Illuminati for it.
K.M. Weiland has said there are eight characters your story needs. I have expanded and contracted this statement, and still determined there to be eight characters.
A few sources have said that if a character has no purpose in your story, then they shouldn’t be in your story. And I agree with them.
I don’t like clichés; I’ve made this perfectly clear on numerous occasions. Stocks on the other hand, are perfectly acceptable. If you use them right.
In case you weren’t aware, TVTropes.com defines purple prose as “Intrusively ornate prose”
We all know the drill. The love interest (female) falls off a tall tower, only to be saved by the (male) hero.
When someone says the word “villain”, I immediately think of a moustache-twirling Brit stroking a white cat while lounging on a swivel chair. Or a Brit in general.
Okay, so we can’t exactly rip off Indiana Jones, Thor Odinsson or Clark Kent, but when I asked my mother to name some Overly Masculine Heroes, these are her offerings. (Yes, mother, I am proud you named Thor.)
What would an urban fantasy story be without some sort of immortal swooping in and taking over the story?