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🎭 pip ([personal profile] pipisafoat) wrote in [community profile] inkstains2010-09-01 11:04 am
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TnT: Varied Characterization

Congratulations again to [personal profile] pippin for winning the 4th contest!

Your topic for the first Challenge Contest, Tear Down The Wall, will be open until 5 pm GMT Saturday - stretch yourself into something new in 500 words or less!

Don't forget about your assignments, editors, which can be found at this link along with a question for the community as a whole.



One of the greatest challenges for an author is to write believable characters who are from a variety of backgrounds and not just a cookie cutter of themselves, or of the self you wish you were. Depending on the story, this can mean characters of a different time period, geographic location, culture, socioeconomic background, race, gender, or even height and weight - you wouldn't believe the number of people who fail to take into account that a 4'9" character simply can't reach the spices over the stove without a stool or someone else's help.

Think about all the character-fails you've seen. Don't share them except in the most general of terms, and don't link them to any specific author, but rather think about what knowledge you have that the author didn't that made you recognize them as fails. Share that knowledge here to help other authors do it right next time! If there's a type of character you've not seen enough of in other people's works in general, let us know about their characteristics and how to present them believably and without offense.

As always, please remember to keep a respectful tone here, to authors who have been misinformed as well as other community members sharing their insights with you.

[personal profile] ex_pippin880 2010-09-02 04:11 am (UTC)(link)
Is it just my browser being odd or is the font-size for the comments amazingly tiny?
msmcknittington: Queenie from Blackadder (Default)

[personal profile] msmcknittington 2010-09-02 04:26 am (UTC)(link)
It's pretty little to start with. Probably 8 or 10 pt? Sans serif fonts take up less room on the screen, too.

Most browsers will let you increase the font size on the screen if you go to View. Somewhere under there it will say something like "zoom" or "increase font size".

[personal profile] ex_pippin880 2010-09-02 04:29 am (UTC)(link)
Opera zooms everything, not just the font. Queenie is so big it looks like she's going to eat me you have no idea.
msmcknittington: Queenie from Blackadder (Default)

[personal profile] msmcknittington 2010-09-02 04:35 am (UTC)(link)
You know she'd do it! Unless you gave her a pressie . . .
azuire: (blah~)

[personal profile] azuire 2010-09-03 11:50 am (UTC)(link)
have this icon in return for that awesome! :D

but Queenie might knock his block off. poor Darling.
silverflight8: bee on rose  (Default)

[personal profile] silverflight8 2010-09-02 08:29 pm (UTC)(link)
They're tiny, and also everything is grey-on-white. :(