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Author Craft / Re: Handicapping your characters.
« on: October 21, 2010, 02:12:04 PM »
*bows down in apology*

Not bashing Aragorn.  He's my favorite part of the book.  I just didn't want to plagiarize him . . . too obviously, mwahaha!

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Author Craft / Re: Stolen Ideas?
« on: October 17, 2010, 10:27:49 AM »
When Homer smote his bloomin' lyre,
He'd heard men sing by land and sea,
And what he thought he might require
He went and took, the same as me.

 - Rudyard Kipling

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Author Craft / Re: Handicapping your characters.
« on: October 17, 2010, 10:24:33 AM »
I have a series I started coming up with ideas for when I was 13.  I knew my character needed SOME kind of handicap (basically, something to make him not be Aragorn), so I just gave him a physical one: he gets a bad leg/knee injury in the prologue.  As I got deeper into the story, though, he ended up developing some organic character flaws that made him both more human and more interesting.  So I'd say give your character an external handicap if you want, and go from there.  Hopefully, as your story develops you'll see how to work in some character development.

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