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Convincing Male Characters
How do you write realistic male characters? That’s a question I often hear from women writers. Today, we’ll look at that and point you in the right direction, but let’s be clear that this is not something you’re going to learn overnight. Anna posted this question on my “Ask A Question For My Blog” page: How do you write convincing male characters? Randy sez: This is similar to a question I answered a few days ago in my blog entry, “On Crossing Gender Lines In Fiction.” If you read that previous blog entry, you’ll know that you don’t have to do a perfect job. Probably the most talked-about lecture I’ve ever given was one titled “Writing From the Male Point of View,” which I gave in the fall of 2004 to an absolutely packed-out room at the annual conference for American Christian Romance Writers. Almost everybody at the conference showed up for my workshop. Until that conference, I had always assumed that women understood men. Apparently, a lot of women don’t know that. Ego.
Kumo - Java Word Cloud
Kumo On GitHub: here The goal of Kumo is to create a powerful and user friendly Word Cloud library in Java. Kumo can directly generate an image file, or return a BufferedImage. Please feel free to jump in and help improve Kumo! Current Features Draw Rectangle, Circle or Image Overlay word clouds. Download from Maven Central Example to generate a Word Cloud on top of an image. Example to generate a circular Word Cloud. Example to generate a rectangle Word Cloud Example of tokenizing chinese text into a circle Create a polarity word cloud to contrast two datasets Create a Layered Word Cloud from two images/two word sets
Female Characters and Their Stories
The following is a list of tropes and elements that are lacking in female characters in fiction (particularly in the Internet fiction I find) these days that would be nice to see more often. Now, I want to clear one thing up - don’t think that a character or story must embody each and every one of these items to be good, or that incorporating these items will automatically make a story or character good, or that any story that fails any of these points is automatically bad. They’re just elements that right now are woefully uncommon in female characters and stories about female characters. Female characters with plot-progressing skills and traits that actually exist in the real world. Even in fantasy stories. Consider this: when you create a character with admirable traits and skills that actually exist in the real world, you create a character who can potentially give others something positive to aspire to. Female characters with meaningful duties and responsibilities.
First, Second, and Third Person
You probably know what it means to write in the first person, but you may not be as confident about using the second- or third-person point of view. Today we’re going to focus on each of these three points of view. In grammatical terms, first person, second person, and third person refer to personal pronouns. Each “person” has a different perspective, a “point of view,” and the three points of view have singular and plural forms as well as three case forms. First Person In the subjective case, the singular form of the first person is “I,” and the plural form is “we.” I (first-person singular) look forward to my monthly book club meeting. The first-person point of view is used primarily for autobiographical writing, such as a personal essay or a memoir. Besides “I” and “we,” other singular first person pronouns include “me” (objective case) and “my” and “mine” (possessive case). For further clarification regarding the eight first-person pronouns just used, here’s a table: Next: Second Person
Writing Masculine Characters
There's nothing quite so jarring as reading a male character who speaks and behaves more like a teenage girl. Whether the differences are biological or sociological in cause, there are definitely some common differences in the way males and females tend to speak and behave that (at least at this point in time - in the future, as societal norms change, who knows?) typically need to be accounted for. Please note that I am writing this as a general guide, and not as a guide (let alone a rulebook!) (And no, if you are female and you feel that any of these apply to you, I am not implying you are male. Make your character's dialog more direct. Back to General CharacterizationGo to a random page!
10 Insulting Words You Should Know
There is a crisis of insults on the Web. On one hand, the volume of flames is very high yet the quality is poor. Gone are the days of the razor-sharp wit of Oscar Wilde and Winston Churchill*, only to be replaced by a string of four letter words typed in ALL CAPS by n00bs (the latest of which is “FAIL”, itself a failure of coming up with a more scathing insult, if you think about it). *For example:"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go," says Oscar Wilde.George Bernard Shaw wrote to Winston Churchill, "I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend....if you have one." Well, it’s hard to teach wit - but all of us can learn the next best thing: the approximation of it by obfuscation, i.e. using big, difficult, and obscure words. 1. Definition: 1) To make French in quality or trait 2) To make somewhat effeminate, and 3) To contract a veneral disease (a 19th century slang). Analysis: We have the English to thank for this word. 2. 3.
How Not To Write Female Characters
There are already a lot of articles around on how to write female characters. That’s all well and good, but I think it’s a lot less restrictive to have an itemized list of things you shouldn’t do. It also might be easier to digest than lengthy essays. Also, this list is intended for people with more testosterone, but since I’ve seen young female authors screw up their own young female protagonists, estrogenites are perfectly allowed to read this too. Like all my advice, this is subjective, in no particular order, and should be taken with a small pile of grains of salt. I’m going to assume you’re taking your work seriously and expect your readers to do the same. Female characters should be characters first and female second. Some examples of good female characters Hermione Granger (Harry Potter series). I could keep going, and I could pick more and more nits, but I think the above is sufficient for now. Leave comments okay I will give you friendship cookies nomnomnom good.
