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Mad Swede replied to the thread Do you gravitate toward particular body types?.My point is that there is no real need to risk offending readers. Sometimes implying something about someone or some situation or event... -
Mad Swede replied to the thread Do you gravitate toward particular body types?.OMG. For me this illustrates everything that is wrong with so many stories written by men. For starters, it isn't realistic. Trust me...
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Lol, well in light of the examples pmmg provided I will say that there's a difference between being offended by something and thinking... -
Mad Swede replied to the thread Do you gravitate toward particular body types?.If you want a safe way to describe these things then DON'T objectify characters in your stories. That means treating your characters as...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Do you gravitate toward particular body types?.To me you're starting at the wrong end, and I would never describe a woman in that way. When I wrote that I thought through the story...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread What was hard to write?.Given that I started writing for what were intensely personal reasons the things I find most hard to write are those scenes which are...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Do you gravitate toward particular body types?.No, I don't write or assume any particular body type. I write what is appropriate for the character, which means I need to have though...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Are classical tropes overdone?.OK, we'll start with some definitions. A literary trope is, in its original meaning, the use of figurative language, via word, phrase...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread fat characters.Riiiiight... So, if a fat AI makes a contribution to the discussion, is it called Ralph? Because I assume it isn't a troll. :unsure: ;)
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There's plenty of room for diversity in a Tolkien-like setting but one has to be careful how it is done. The line between something...
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When it comes to discussions about diversity it's usually from the American perspective. It is assumed that because most American...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread How many characters is too many?.In terms of literary analysis, a character is someone (or, as we're talking fantasy, something) who are named and needed to advance the...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread fat characters.It's taken me a while to work out how to reply to this. Yes, there are the usual answers in that it's appropriate for the plot and...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread fat characters.Why should they exist? Well, there's two reasons for this in my view. One is what I and Queshire have already written, that it can be...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread fat characters.OK. For me diversity is about those who differ in some way from the norm, who differ from what society expects. And this is where it...