Tag Archive | characters
TV Tropes Monday: Defector from Decadence
Tweet of the Day: Strings of Retaliation – 18b – Bullet ——- The Defector from Decadence is a character who abandons the dark side not because he has suddenly turned good but because the values of his former compatriots don’t match his own. A writer can use this trope to add both narrative and character […]
Lessons from the Aether: Sanderson and Worldbuilding a Plot
Tweet of the Day: Forging a Universe: Worldbuilding Physics ——- Brandon Sanderson is a master of weaving deep, well thought out worldbuilding into intricate fantasy plots. While other writers struggle with the question of how much background information to put in their stories, Sanderson makes figuring out how the world works part of the […]
Weekend Roundup: March 17-23
Tweet of the Day: How to Figure Out the Worst Thing That Can Happen to Your Character ——- Oh dear god, I’m playing another MMORPG, this time around it is the beta for Neverwinter (based on D&D 4E). Thank god it is only a weekend thing, but still, think of the words, the poor, […]
TV Tropes Monday: Combat, Diplomacy, Stealth
Tweet of the Day: Writing Excuses 8.11: Abnormal Psychology ——- This trope is a conflict resolution trope. A character is given a choice between fighting, talking or sneaking past obstacles. This trope is not limited to video games. It also applies to any narrative. Most stories will have a pre-set mode, combat for war stories, […]
Lessons from the Aether: Sandbox Games and Populating Your Worlds
Tweet of the Day: Gettin’ Nerdy With It: RPGs ——– The lowly spear carrier. It is a steeple of story telling from time immemorial. Somebody must deliver the news that the king is dead or simply stand around while the heroes do the hero thing. In movies they are the extras in crowd scenes which […]
Lessons from the Aether: BioWare Makes You Care
Tweet of the Day: Designing from the Bones- Unearthing Merlin’s Bones ——- Say what you will about BioWare, and I have said many negative things this year, but they do know how to pull players in. How? They know how to create characters players will connect too. It is easy to “care” for the fate […]
Space for Rent: Defining vs. Defined By
Tweet of the Day: Writing 7.40: Writing the Other ——— The difference between shallow and deep. Between stereotype and deep characterization. The difference is subtle but real. A defining trait is one that is inherent to the make up of the character. It can not be ignored or set aside. Be it their gender, sexual […]
Mass Effect/After Earth Chronicles: Character Profiles
Tweet of the Day: Heinlein’s Rules for Writing (And How To Break Them) —— I finally wrote the first chapter of the After Earth Chronicles, but it still going through revisions. In the meantime, here is a run down of the main characters. —– Theodore Carlos Thompson-Ramos (Human): Place of Birth: Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, Caribbean […]
Space for Rent: Where the Story Takes You
Tweet of the Day: EOW Parade of Victory ——- Time for that old pet peeve of mine, consistency. I’ve written about this many times before, but I figured there was something missing. To wit, my insistence on sticking with the internal logic/consistency of a work could lead to the very death of the work. How […]
TV Tropes Monday: Ridiculously Human Robot
Tweet of the Day: Video Games ——- Real life robots are basically an mechanical arm stuck to the ground with some kind of tool gun at the end of said arm. Not so in fiction. Enter this trope. Which makes perfect sense from a writing point of view, we been doing it for ages: Anthropomorphism […]
