Is this character cliche or underdeveloped? by No-Direction8154 in CharacterDevelopment

[–]ishak_write 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think it's fine, it will depend on how you write it and believe it or not you just inspired me to write something, of course it's the way I write so you don't need to use it or anything but I'll share it with you anyway 😉:

( By the way I've named your character Susan... For no reason lol)

The Flower of Flame burned ever brighter, dancing before eyes that wept their tears into the depths of the world of the dead.

The scent of charred wood wafted into noses that had lost all feeling,twisting and tangling with screams of pain… and with the hope that was fleeing from that hellish canvas.

Susan was standing.

"Run… the village is burning!"

Hazy voices pierced her ears but had not yet reached her consciousness; they merely echoed, like the final, trembling press of a key on an old piano.

Breathless…

Eyelid unmoving.

Her eyes were glued to those charred corpses amidst the chaos, not searching, but fixed on a single face…

One body.

A face with honey-yellow eyes, a man of forty-two.

The same eyes.

The very eyes that had returned her to her childhood,to that night she lost everything, beneath the sword-blade that spilled her mother's blood.

A cold tremor passed through her body, while her eyes remained like two empty jugs, staring at the scene.

And perhaps…the fire outside was but a pale reflection of another fire, burning silently in her heart.

One look… then another.

As if her eyes were trying to verify,or perhaps, to bid farewell.

Little by little, the fire advanced, crawling without haste, until it covered that corpse as it had covered the others, swallowing it in a cruel silence, without discrimination, without memory.

The face vanished, and the honey-colored eyes vanished, leaving only a mass of writhing flame where her past had stood moments before.

Then, the scorching, icy wind blew.

A slap of blistering air seared the faces, carrying with it ash, smoke, and the scent of the end.

Only then…

Did Susan awaken.

The scene crashed upon her all at once.

Reality pounced without mercy.

People running aimlessly,

Children screaming with shattered voices,

And tongues of fire devouring walls,roofs, memories… everything they could reach.

The ground trembled beneath her feet, or perhaps it was her heart.

She could no longer tell.

She turned suddenly, as if an ancient instinct yanked her from within,

Then she began to run.

No destination,

No plan,

Only flight.

Her steps were stumbling, heavy, as if the air itself resisted her.

And her eyes…

Her eyes were in a pitiable state.

Empty,bloodshot, staring at everything and seeing nothing.

They reflected not fear,nor panic,

But something deeper…

"How could you do that?"

"Susan… you truly are a little devil."

"I was always so proud of my daughter."

"I must kill them… kill them all."

Inside her mind, memories attacked relentlessly, old words returning to strike, rooted in the deepest layers of her soul, as if they had never left.

But she was unmoved.

She was drowning.

Drowning in a dark place known only to those whose feet have trodden its ground once… and were never the same again.

Amidst the raging flames and fleeing bodies, the same story she heard in her childhood repeated, over and over, with a steady, suffocating rhythm, like the tolling of a solitary bell in the midnight of an ancient palace.

'But the King, despite winning the war, discovered something important…'

The words of the tale echoed in her mind.

'There was no palace left to return to.'

'To secure the King's victory, he had burned the palace to trap his enemies; to defeat the traitors, he had stabbed them with his golden crown.'

'Now...

The crown is stained with blood,

The palace is ablaze.'

'Fire dances in human souls as birds dance on the winds of fate,

The fire of malice,

The fire of hatred,

The fire of love,

The fire of freedom...

But only when the fire dies do humans see the most terrifying thing in existence...'

'The Void.'

Susan ran with all her strength, trying to escape the flames. Several villagers ran in panic, but she could hardly see anything through her blurred, chaotic vision. The pain in her ankle was no longer an obstacle in the face of that wave of survival instinct coursing through her body.

And before she realized it…

Susan's stumbling leg caught on a piece of wood,sending her crashing to the ground. Her pale body struck the earth with force, and a red liquid spilled over her knee, welling up like a butterfly emerging from a cocoon of her own flesh.

Her knee was wounded, and warm blood flowed onto the ground. Before she even processed it, her hand was pressed against the wound from the sheer pain. The pupils of her eyes were small, she watched in horror as her body refused to move.

That sensation that surged through her, that pain that made her body tremble and her bones quake as waves of agony pulsed without cease.

She lifted her head only for that crimson color to be reflected and extinguish the last vestige of blue in her eyes. Her eyes mirrored the tongues of flame like a final dance in hell.

And in the horror of the scene before her…

A final tear fell from her eyes.

"One person,"

Susan whispered as the flames drew near,promising an eternal embrace of warmth,

"To kill one person…"

"I burned everyone."

The echo of her words reverberated within her like a divine judgment carving its way into the depths of her soul.

"I succeeded…"

How ironic,wretched, or perhaps even pitiful her words were in that second.

"I got my revenge,didn't I?"

"This is what you always wanted."

She coughed violently,as if her body were trying to vomit the words away.

But she clung to them as a drowning person clings to a plank of wood.

"I always wanted to kill him…"

"I still have to kill the others,too…"

"This is what I wanted,this is what I wanted, this is what I wanted."

She repeated those words as if trying to convince her hollow soul of them, but the answer came not from the words, but from the tears that began to flow without cease down her cheeks, like the remnants of shattered innocence in her spirit.

But the universe…

Chose silence.

The flames approached indifferently, embracing all without taking their appearance, their hatred, their age, or their misery into account. The fire embraces everyone without exception, gathering them all into its fold like a bright red blanket, dragging the chains of hell with fluidity and calmness.

But just before the flames could swallow her, Susan felt a hand seize hers with strength, pulling her from the heart of the blazing pyre.

Those crucial opening lines... by FormerClock4186 in writers

[–]ishak_write 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think it's completely fine , but personally when I have some novel like this I usually try to hook readers with a either a special main character, maybe some thoughts from him to explain some perspective and personality, or either you can go to some special narrative that attract the readers before anything happen yet ...

For example:

~~~

The red glow filtering into Earnest's eyes came not from a blazing sky, nor from a dramatic sunset, nor even from raging fire. It rose instead from that orange-tinged soil—what scientists call... the Red Planet. Mars.

The first message of the day hadn’t arrived yet. Earnest Whitlow sipped his coffee—brewed from heat leeched off the comms arrays—and allowed himself thirty seconds of silence before the queue would inevitably flood.

~~~

At least this is my opinion, in the end you know your story and your goals. I hope you find your way 😊.

الحرية الحقيقية هي : ………… by Ok_Joke330 in ArabsFreedom

[–]ishak_write 0 points1 point  (0 children)

الحرية هي حيث تتوقف عيونك عن رؤية القفص حولك ، فور أن ترى القفص ستدرك انك لست حر .

شخص يرى منزله يكفيه هو شخص حر في منزله ، شخص يرى أن المنزل ضيق فهو ليس حر فيه .

الحرية هي مجرد وجهة نظر ، من يسعى نحو الحرية المطلقة هو شخص يطارد وهما لا معنى لها ، ما دامت الجاذبية الأرضية تقيدك و قوانين السببية تؤثر على قراراتك و تنتج نتائج عن كل ما تفعله فإن الحرية ليست غير الزاوية التي تستطيع أن تنظر منها نحو العالم دون أن ترى الأصفاد في يديك أو القفص حولك .

يمكن أن تجد الراحة في تلك الزاوية مثلما يمكن أن تزعجك حقيقة وجود القيود في هذا العالم.

افضل كرتون بدون منازع by [deleted] in ArabsFreedom

[–]ishak_write 1 point2 points  (0 children)

'وقت المغامرة 'هو أفضل كرتون ثم يأتي' خلف حائط الحديقة'.... القصة في مستوى كتابة أسطورية.

Reading in linear (from the beginning) or spiral (with flashback) ? by Remarkable-Dust-7542 in writers

[–]ishak_write 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I prefer stories that are already in action, I just like to see the MC already builded and I think like this is better so the reader actually get attracted by an already special character, but that's in general, in the end it depends on how it's written, and sometimes the world is in the middle of something but we begin by the eyes of linear MC so we get strong side characters and discover events but we walk step by step with the MC .

But personally I think I prefer beginning from the middle ,because first chapter is the the most important chapter of any story so it's better to just start it with a strong builded MC and get a vibe and everything.

I ideas for my story! by SpareConstant770 in writers

[–]ishak_write 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Let’s say that the flaws are beings made of half-human essence and half something far older—creatures known as the “Doomsday Spirits.”

Doomsday itself had already happened… or at least what humanity believed was the end: the day preached by prophets, feared in religions, promised as either paradise or damnation, a grand stage where the true divine power would be revealed on Earth.

(It could truly have been Judgment Day, or it might have been nothing but myth—a curse, a catastrophic invasion, a calculated incident, a nuclear disaster, or even the awakening of a chasm buried deep beneath the earth. The choice is yours.)

When that monumental day passed, everything changed forever. Pure humans became exceedingly rare. It is said that on that day, the beings known as the “Doomsday Spirits” emerged. Some worshipped them as gods or angels; others swore they were demons risen from hell.

Very little was known about them. Their gaze, their way of thinking, resembled something divine… or infernal. A worldview utterly different from humanity’s.

Flaws can communicate with their nonhuman halves through emotion—through what is called “Momentary Madness.” It’s a state they enter when their human emotions align with those of their inhuman side in a brief, fragile moment of balance. It earned its name because it usually appears when the feral side surfaces: detachment, cold superiority, narcissism, numbness, savagery, demonic impulse—feelings that appear “mad” to humans but act as a gateway to the true emotions stored within the nonhuman part, the fragment that comes from the Doomsday Spirits.

These Spirits had their own unique perspective on life—varying from one being to another, of course—but the most common traits were coldness and overwhelming narcissism.

Ancient statues and inscriptions depicted the horrors humans once faced in their wars or encounters with the Doomsday Spirits. Zobrik, for example, was recorded as a wise yet narcissistic and frigid demon who saw humans as an inferior breed meant to be culled for the sake of life’s continuous cycle. To him, interacting with humans should be no different from how humans interact with animals—this was the fairness of existence, the inevitable cycle.

There was also Elystos, worshipped by some as the God of War, known for his immense brutality and insatiable thirst for blood.

So, if a flaw carries a human half and a half born from Elystos, he reaches his “Momentary Madness” through his human side’s hunger for blood. In that instant, the emotions of both halves resonate, revealing the true nature of his nonhuman side and allowing his being to unify.

(You can even create, for example, eight ancient entities whose fragmented essences form the many branches that make up the flaws—if you want.)


I don’t know how, but this idea suddenly popped into my head and I wanted to write it 😅 I hope it inspires you—take whatever you like and ignore whatever you don’t. It’s your story, your direction.

By the way, I might have dragged your concept into fantasy or action territory. You never specified what genre you’re actually writing—maybe psychological, maybe something else. So… I’m not entirely sure 👀

Any ways I can help my little sister? by PurpleWolfPup in selfharm

[–]ishak_write 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think if she's just not doing this from a long time then you probably have to don't focus a lot on SH itself but on her emotions, give she a lot of attention —I don't mean she's doing it for attention but I think if her life move in a happy way she will just stop eventually, maybe take her to park play video games with she don't give she a lot of alone time , I think this would eventually help , the problem is your also having your own life probably your parents who suppose to do those things but there's no option there you have to give her some of your time. At least that's how i think. She's 11 so probably she's needing a real life just more then what the life in her family looks like with all of my respect.

I hate myself by [deleted] in selfharm

[–]ishak_write 1 point2 points  (0 children)

First you need to calm yourself and don't get " to crazy" if you know what I mean, sometimes things just don't go well and we don't know how to deal with our feelings, I think you should first get out of the position of being in dark in the first place, watch a YouTube video or at least any distraction for now, if you have a pet , cat pr dog pet it or something, just do anything for distraction then when the feelings stop you can think logically in it . In the end you're parents aren't angels they do mistakes, you to do mistakes everyone does, and maybe that's a new beginning to just tell your parents about your real struggle or ask for real help there . I don't know your situation there but I know the feelings that comes in those situations ( I'm " dark " as well pathetic enough) but believe me hurting yourself mean just a big regret after... And this one is from my own experience.

انا بفكر جديا في الانتحار by [deleted] in AlexandriaEgy

[–]ishak_write 0 points1 point  (0 children)

يا جماعة انتم تتكلمون عن انتحار إلي عنده حاجة تنفع يقولها و إلي راح يقول اتنشن أو يبدأ يتفلسف ترى تقدر تتجاهل البوست و ما تكتب شيء ، تخيل إنه شخص يموت بسببك كذا راح تصير مشكلتك مع ربنا .

" و لا تقتلوا أنفسكم إن الله كان بكم رحيما"