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  5. Writing An Antagonist: Thoughts, Ideas, Processes...

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    Posted · Edited by Arian-Sinclair

    On 1/27/2017 at 12:14 PM, Tcr said:

    “And the comical bad villains”

    Right there, I got the image of the ‘60s Batman villains of the week…  Not the good old ones like Joker, Catwoman, Mister Freeze, Penguin, or Riddler…  Ones like King Tut, who are just so laughably comical…

    :lol: My train of thought went to Jack Spicer of Xiaolin Showdown. He does take a Level In Badass every now and then, but he’s mostly just trying his damnest to be the most By the Book of Card Carrying Villains throughout most of the show. I love him; he’s hilarious and such an awesome dork.

  6. The Unreviewed

    in Reviews

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    8 minutes ago, JayDee said:

    ...well, that’s a pop culture ref I don’t get! Happens more and more as I get closer to middle age.

    It’s an anime/manga reference. Death the Kid is from the anime/manga Soul Eater and is obsessed with symmetry. His favourite number is 8 because of this obsession. XD 

  7. The Unreviewed

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    On 7/1/2018 at 2:36 AM, Desiderius Price said:

    88?  Beware, that might definitely get the attention of the grammar nazis 

    It’ll definitely get positive attention from Death the Kid. :lol:

  11. How much do you listen to reviews?

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    1 hour ago, Desiderius Price said:

    As I try to turn a lemon into lemonade … understanding that most here aren’t professionals, including our reviewers.

    Assuming this reviewer isn’t simply trolling, then the other way to take this is that if you can entice more feedback from this person to try to find out what things strike them as odd, or poorly worded, or confusing.  It might be valid to consider, maybe not – though their demand is unreasonable.

    Personally, I don’t have an editor/beta, so my own writing has rough spots, so that’s why my second reaction to such a review would be to solicit more feedback to figure things out.  (Of course, my first reaction is one best to be kept away from the keyboard.)

    :hug:And assuming the person is reasonable to begin with. I’ve found there are just some people who refuse to listen to reason who aren’t just trolling. It’s always good to at least make an attempt at reasonable communication. There’s something else I want  to add,  but I can’t make the thought turn into words to write/type it.

  12. How much do you listen to reviews?

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    6 hours ago, Nightwing said:

    Haven't been here in ages but I had a review today that sort of got to me. Basically it went like this: "You have a good idea but your style is horrible. Here's how I would write it."

    Now I write originals and I write mine pretty much the same way each time. I built up this world over the years (10+ to be exact) and all of a sudden I have someone telling me it's all wrong and I should adopt a style like theirs. 

    Have any of you had this happen? How do you deal with it? I just feel like a small child who has been contentedly drawing with crayons only to have an adult snatch it away and "fix" it. The moment the adult fixes the drawing, it ceases to be the work of the original artist (the child).

    Seems to me someone needs to take a step back and get off xyr high horse. So what if the person doesn’t like how you write? No two people write exactly the same way, and that snoot needs to understand that. It’s rude to say someone should write a different way like that just to impose xyr own writing style on another. It makes it seem as if the person only likes one way of writing, and if that’s the case, xe doesn’t have to continue reading if something’s not xyr cuppa. Writing style can change how a story goes, essentially changing the story with it despite remaining the same idea. You don’t have to change your style of writing, and xe’s just going to have to suck it up. You do you because no one else can write the same exact way you do with the same end result.

    P.S. I sort of took this as a chance to practise with my gender neutral pronouns (the ones I use, xe/xyr/xyrs) since I’ve only just started writing them and want to phase out of the habit I have of using they/them/their/theirs. Plus it gets confusing for me with they/them/their/theirs since they’re mainly used as plural, and that makes it hard to tell sometimes if it’s the plural or singular form of they/them/their/theirs as my mind will process it as plural because that’s what I was always taught in school when I was little. It always takes me a moment for my mind to process they/them/their/theirs as singular since it feels awkward for me. Anyhow, this P.S. is getting kind of long, so I’m just going to end it here.

  13. Text color in the Forums

    in Forum Tech Support

    Posted · Edited by Arian-Sinclair

    You can do that on the AFF site and copy & paste it from there to the forum site, which is how I got my about me the colour format it is. That may also depend on the device, but I’m not sure. It definitely works on mobile. If you need more elaboration on what I’m talking about, just ask. You’d have to check your devices settings to do anything about the format colouring for other’s posts/written stuff, though.

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