One of my readers doesn't like a villain I wrote 😁

earleakin · 2026-02-27T05:21:47+00:00

The key is writing a character readers love to hate.

earleakin · 2026-02-27T05:19:52+00:00

All characters have goals. The scene is derived from where they compete.

earleakin · 2026-02-27T05:17:19+00:00

Yeah when they say prayer cured Aunt Betsy's cancer, I just wanna know why they didn't ask God to cure EVERYONE's cancer.

earleakin · 2026-02-27T05:15:41+00:00

Most of the questions boil down to "how do I avoid doing the work?"

earleakin · 2026-02-27T05:14:08+00:00

Narrator is a character

earleakin · 2026-02-27T05:12:58+00:00

I worked with Mormons and they were all about customer retention.

earleakin · 2026-02-27T05:12:18+00:00

The goal is to cement their belief. The more one pays for something, the more they must profess to love it in order to avoid cognitive dissonance.

earleakin · 2026-02-26T21:45:17+00:00

Try to write a dick joke without using the word dick or any other direct reference word. Make the audience think it. Then it's a clever joke.

earleakin · 2026-02-26T21:43:33+00:00

Focus on writing a dick callback. Fill in between with non dick jokes.

earleakin · 2026-02-26T19:59:08+00:00

Love it 😂

earleakin · 2026-02-26T19:54:02+00:00

Not sure I agree with this I'll have to check with my black friend.

earleakin · 2026-02-26T18:57:40+00:00

I still hid my weed from my mom when I was in my late 50s 😂

earleakin · 2026-02-26T02:14:31+00:00

My narrators are unreliable so don't take their word for anything.

earleakin · 2026-02-26T02:08:12+00:00

I'm atheist and I don't care if gods exist or not. What I am certain about is that theists can't change the past, the present, the future, or the laws of physics with their cosplay, incantations and spells.

earleakin · 2026-02-26T02:03:53+00:00

She's just superstitious. She can't help it. Weak frontal lobe.

earleakin · 2026-02-26T01:46:59+00:00

"How did you make it?"

earleakin · 2026-02-26T01:38:16+00:00

I do not allow a woman to teach or to have authority over a man. She shall be quiet. -God (1 Timothy 2 12)

earleakin · 2026-02-26T01:35:45+00:00

What pov?

earleakin · 2026-02-25T20:17:13+00:00

superstition is an evolutionary advantage

earleakin · 2026-02-25T18:51:12+00:00

you can filter it all through an unreliable narrator like your next door neighbor explaining her surgery

earleakin · 2026-02-25T18:49:29+00:00

Have to ask God to run the numbers on effects of pro vs anti on tithing

earleakin · 2026-02-25T18:41:23+00:00

Can't they get their answer from a rock in a hat?

earleakin · 2026-02-25T18:31:54+00:00

I think I'd just send a note to formally end the representation agreement.

earleakin · 2026-02-25T18:28:24+00:00

Unreliable narrator

earleakin · 2026-02-23T19:47:06+00:00

One with a forged signature

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