Consider the theme the backbone of a narrative, guiding the plot, the character development, and the reader’s emotional journey. By unifying various narrative elements, themes help to ensure that character arcs, plot points, and dialogue contribute to the overarching message. This cohesiveness can...
hook. This process involves identifying the transformation your character undergoes, which is central to understanding and conveying the essence of your story. Hopefully, having a cleared understanding of the three main arcs and some examples of how they unfold, you’ll be better equipped to do ...
Alright, let’s clear up another common tangle: mixing up “fiction” and “novel” as if they’re the same thing. Here’s the deal… all novels are literary fiction, but not all fiction is a novel. Fiction is like this big umbrella that covers any story made up in someone’s imagin...
In this lot I would include things as pro wrestling, demolition derbies, ‘genre’ fiction: Westerns, Romance, Sci Fi, Horror, Crime/Mystery, etc., B-movies from early Sci Fi to Godzilla to porno to slasher films, most pop music from heavy metal to bubble gum to soul to country to ...
you just have to keep the most compelling arcs moving while you do so. In my snowmen example, maybe the hero and their neighbor find a creepy snowman behind their apartment building and start investigating together. A new viewpoint character could be a reporter investigating the strange stories...
InBugsy,Bugsy Siegel’s relationship with Virginia is so bad that she even steals money from him. InPulp Fiction, Marsellus Wallace is such a feared crime boss, yet his wife feels so lonely that she starts flirting with one of his henchmen. The ailing marriage trope is also used heavily i...
In a thread on MyAnimeList, fans wrote, “Detective Conan's fillers are so bad,”“I really dislike the fillers from Pokémon: Sun and Moon; they're all pointless,” and “There's a noticeable drop in quality, like the whole filler arcs in Bleach and Naruto.” Others, however, thought...
Transformations have been popular in fiction for hundreds of years.[3] In anime, characters tend to undergo powerful transformations that are equipped with long sequences detailing each change. These transformations usually come with a power boost and new appearance, which often builds hype for what...