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majormeilani · 1 year ago

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never been the biggest fan of people who subscribe solely to the writing advice "your characters are only tools to tell your story" and then make the most flat and least compelling characters you've ever seen. like rip to you if you're so detached from your own characters but i'm over here crafting characters for my audience to actually care about and have an impact on my audience and not making characters who are just solely Plot Device The Character

#i understand what some ppl mean when they say 'tools' but some people take that entirely too literally and end up making characters that #don't serve any purpose beyond being a plot device tm and that's it #think like a characters parents passing away right. and those parents being dead never really being brought up again #or those characters not having an identity beyond them being dead #that kind of writing irks tf out of me

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