StorySeeker

Okay, we need to make a decision soon on this. We have just over a week to perfect this 2,500 word scene!

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@storyseeker, you could ask for people to beta-read/alpha-read/critique in the Critique space here. I personally have a street team who I ask to beta-read for me.

Make sure you get your word counts in today! The link is in the first post on this thread.

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@storyseeker

Okay, thanks! That helps so much! (When you said sappy, I instantly thought like romantic, but really the word sappy has more meanings than that, so my bad! 😉)

(Also, I don’t know why I’m trying to help you because I’m kind of an emotional drama queen and I’m a sucker for highly emotional scenes, but hey, I’ll see what I can do.…[Read more]

@storyseeker

I’m assuming you’re referring to the archetype Mentor character? I’m not sure of any hard and fast rules, but I’d think within the first act/quarter of the story would be best, or at least before the midpoint. If he were introduced in the first act, he would slowly begin to reveal the protagonist’s inner problems and help propel him…[Read more]

@storyseeker

Hey, so just for clarification, are we talking about romantic relationships? (That’s what I thought you are talking about…)

So, do you mean emotions like sadness and anger or what?

I’d love to help you out, but I don’t want to go blundering ahead making statements and throwing out ideas when we arn’t on the same page.😉

@storyseeker

Great question! I am dealing with a lot of the same thing in my current WIP… a lot of unusual relationships, to say the least. 😀

A couple things I have found extremely helpful:

1) Make sure your characters have a lot of individuality, personality of their own. When they have a distinct set of reactions, thoughts, emotions, etc,…[Read more]

I’m afraid this is not a “real quick” thing, my good @storyseeker. “Sappy” is just another word for scenes of goofy emotions. They can be romantic, humorous, both, or–the worst side of it–done wrong.

Though I haven’t settled too deep into the waters of well-blended relationships and romantics, I would give the quick rule to make sure your…[Read more]

@storyseeker, to start a topic, go to the section of the forum you want to post in, scroll to the bottom and there’s a couple of blank spaces underneath a place that says “Create New Topic in ‘(section you chose)'” Then you can create the title of the topic you want and write in there. Let me know if you still need help.

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Check out the info here, please. Also, there’s a lovely…[Read more]