https://www.fastcompany.com/90867258/this-formula-introduce-yourself-like-a-pro
With a bit of adaptation, this seems like something useful for writers and other folk that need to introduce themselves to others.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90867258/this-formula-introduce-yourself-like-a-pro
With a bit of adaptation, this seems like something useful for writers and other folk that need to introduce themselves to others.
If so, please stop!
How Shrinking perpetuates Hollywood’s most sexist cliché – BBC Culture
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20230315-how-shrinking-perpetuates-hollywoods-most-sexist-clich
Your secrets hurt your mental health. What’s the alternative? | Aeon Essays
A lot in here that can apply to us (as a person) and to story characters.
How many stories have you encountered where characters keep secrets from one another? How did it affect them and their relationships?
It also talks about guilt and shame: the differences between them, their effects on people, and ways to handle them.
The author pursued these studies of keeping secrets because he and his brother are products of a secret his parents decided to keep from them before the kids were even born: That each was the product of sperm donors. Different donors. So the usual childhood discussions of “who was the most like Dad” had a secret depth they weren’t even aware of.
If you’ve followed the Marvell Comics Universe stories about Thor and Loki, those are stories of keeping secrets, and what happened when they came out.
The movie Thor: Ragnarok is particularly about keeping secrets. The secret of their banished sister Hela, the secret of how Asgard became so powerful. When the secrets came out, Asgard was destroyed!
The James Bond movies starring Daniel Craig regularly have secrets coming back to bite the characters. In fact, the entire plot of Skyfall is about M’s secret betrayal of an earlier Double-Oh agent to the Chinese, and how that eventually kills her and massively damages the agency.
So read the essay and think of how keeping secrets affects themes, plots, characters.
Something to apply to historical fiction, and medievalish fantasy.
Interesting Reaction… – Dean Wesley Smith
And here’s the post about free advertising for writers that he’s talking about:
Everyone Loves A Hero by Fran Wilde
https://dailysciencefiction.com/science-fiction/superhero/fran-wilde/everyone-loves-a-hero
Tactics to be more influential at work:
What tactics would fit with your characters best?
Which ones wouldn’t work for one of your characters?
Which one(s) would be most effective for one of your characters to influence another of your characters?
Which one(s) would influence your readers most?
https://www.fastcompany.com/90703987/use-these-tactics-to-be-more-influential-at-work
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/03/210319080820.htm
Real writing is best, I guess.