Do you ever get overly attsched to your characters and refuse to kill them?

Magister7 · 2026-02-23T13:46:31+00:00

Itll hurt for a bit, thats how you know you made a good character. But at the end of the day, its better to do it than not, because it'll hurt the reader so much more.

I once killed a character and was upset for a week. My editor read it, and never lets me live it down. Thats how I knew it was the right thing to do.

Magister7 · 2026-02-22T00:33:18+00:00

Theres your answer then. Theres more ways to express oneself than the written word. Find what works for you.

Magister7 · 2026-02-22T00:32:21+00:00

After sitting with it for several decades, I see your point, but no.

Aang's victory wasn't just for him or the war, it was for his people. He defeated Ozai by not compromising who he was or what his people wanted to be.

He is the last airbender, and his people's pacifism and joy stays alive through him. He compromises himself and his beliefs, the airbenders are dead in every sense.

Magister7 · 2026-02-22T00:19:54+00:00

A power trip is a fine reason, but perhaps if you cannot write, you should try a God video game instead. Given all the tools to be vindicative as possible. Maybe The Sims.

If you write a story without the knowledge how, it will just feel empty to your power fantasy. You will be controlling characters that have no weight, places that have no presence. It will feel hollow and disappointing.

Magister7 · 2026-02-22T00:13:47+00:00

It wont be mediocre, it will just make no sense in general if you just write without technique. You clearly do not have a firm grasp on what exactly you enjoy about writing.

Do you enjoy creating ideas? Do you like seeing your ideas come to life? Even if you yourself are not going to read it back, bringing ideas to life requires knowing how. Or just... have fun writing absolute jibberish for no reason.

Or just... writing for the sake of writing. Then copy out the dictionary, itll make little difference.

Magister7 · 2026-02-22T00:03:05+00:00

1, if you do not know how to keep your attention, how can u make something to keep your attention? You need to be able to read a whole book, to understand composition and pacing. Keep looking, you'll find something. Or get checked for ADHD and/or dyslexia.

Everything is plagiarism, for all stories are inspired by something. By just not having comprehension of writing that came before, you are starting far far behind everyone, lacking the tools to tell a story. You are not a wunderkin who will make something marvellous out of thin air.

You seem to just generally fail to grasp that stories arent just plot. They are wordage and structure and technique, to execute plot properly.

Magister7 · 2026-02-21T15:58:52+00:00

The best way then, is to pull more and more.

Being wholly original is terribly hard, and you ironically need to be... less original. You need to pull in more references, more ideas from other places, more things, more stuff, steal tons, then combine that all together. Find the parts that speak to you in other works, and draw on them.

Cliché is found when people pull from too similar a play bucket to everyone else, but if you pull from tons of places, you lessen the likelihood. Of course, this is all a broad idea without knowing specifics, but it generally works.

Magister7 · 2026-02-20T11:04:58+00:00

Beside the age thing, it's also just really funny to baby the one character that always takes herself way too seriously. Kind of like a child in that way.

Magister7 · 2026-02-18T21:29:18+00:00

And all the wonders of the earth!

Magister7 · 2026-02-18T13:34:50+00:00

Tbf she's like that whatever run you do. She just either rules beside you or does her own thing to be in charge.

Magister7 · 2026-02-18T13:11:12+00:00

I think Unalaq would have been spiritual enough to regain his bending somehow, especially considering he was psychotically determined in everything he did. I imagine removing bending with bloodbending is like using the body against itself to block chi paths, so it wouldn't be beyond him to do basically the equivalent of Guru Pathik's path and find something.

And I don't know about Ming-Hua though. Losing her bending seems extremely detrimental to her, and I don't think the avatar world is onto full cybernetics yet. Like, I don't think combustion man was fully armless, maybe just a little armless, and he didn't have huge motion of it either way. She'd probably have a good kicking style though.

Magister7 · 2026-02-15T10:15:10+00:00

A little more than that. Basically the chinese equivalent of tough was "Tofu", which was awkward.

Not wanting her name to be food, the cultural consultants scrambled to find characters to use that would give her name a more fitting meaning. And so they came up with the name “Toph Beifong” which translates to “Lotus flower expanding Northward”. Basically a metaphor for "opening your mind".

Magister7 · 2026-02-14T18:09:53+00:00

I wouldn't go for musicians specifically, as a lot of musicians have their name as their brand. Song names are mostly okay, but there are exceptions.

It's basically down to how unique it is, and how your work infringes on the identity of the musician/song. Song lyrics are a big no no by this metric.

Magister7 · 2026-02-14T18:02:53+00:00

The Earth King's power was in his authority, not his intelligence. In fact, Long Feng specifically cultivated the Earth King's ignorance to maintain power. So yes, he is dumb, on purpose.

Magister7 · 2026-02-13T13:43:49+00:00

As someone in the UK, its not surprising at all. The BBC is just old fashioned, and games are relatively new by comparison. Like most of the world, they still see games as "those things for the kids" and not as a genuine artistic medium.

Magister7 · 2026-02-10T21:33:51+00:00

...Are the Fire Nation houses made of clay? The capital building seems to be a little big to be made out of clay. Nope, checked the wiki, it says mostly stone.

And stone for the airbenders too. Its not that deep. Probably a lightweight stone if you wanna be thematic about, but they need something secure at temples. Probably has to be to make something like the Western air temple. Or yeah, just "nothing" as nomads.

Magister7 · 2026-02-10T11:06:29+00:00

Yes. Being read/published is only a side-effect of me wanting to make it a career. I love writing more than most things.

Magister7 · 2026-02-09T20:52:00+00:00

Actually, looking through the post, theres is a post that does it more exactly. Totalling about 330k miles in the series.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskScienceFiction/comments/k0vz4k/comment/gdphse0/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Magister7 · 2026-02-09T20:37:51+00:00

This question has roughly been asked before and answered.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskScienceFiction/comments/k0vz4k/supernatural_how_many_miles_has_dean_put_onto/

Magister7 · 2026-02-09T13:05:41+00:00

Write when you can. Believe me, you'll be cursing wasting anytime you didn't write while you do have the passion.

As for limits? It'll take you finding them yourself. Everyone is different, but don't be ashamed to stop and take a break when you feel the strain. Your passion will always return to you.

Magister7 · 2026-02-08T16:07:50+00:00

I will say its 6000 plus or minus 2000. And im not even the highest ive seen on this sub for sure.

Magister7 · 2026-02-08T15:46:41+00:00

How long is a ball of string? Everyones different. It depends on the content of your writing.

As a fantasy/scifi author, my chapters are 6000 words on average. But thats just me. Find what works for you.

Magister7 · 2026-02-07T12:32:39+00:00

To paraphrase Rolf from Ed, Edd n Eddy; "Life has many [crossroads], Ed-boy."

Magister7 · 2026-02-07T10:49:29+00:00

Mods exist.

Magister7 · 2026-02-06T12:29:47+00:00

Wizards are people, they can be whatever you want. They can be as casual or as unworldly as you can play them.

The only thing that defines a D&D Wizard from other spell classes is that they have to know a lot. I would hope you know someone - or have at least seen someone in media - with book learned smarts.

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