forum Things You Want MORE Of In Books

Started January 21, 2019 by @evastardust groupRRAAAARRL

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And can said functional relationships not all just be a bunch of teenagers? I'm sick of teen romance, and as I get older, I sometimes find it creepy that it's adults writing some of the stuff we find in YA.

I've said it once and I'll say it again: adult writers and fans oversexualizing teen characters is not okay

Most of my characters in deep, functional relationships are adults. And honestly, I can't sacrifice the character to make a relationship work, I have to sacrifice a relationship for the characters.

Hmm… I've always wondered why left-handed characters are such a rarity. I believe it's around 10% of the population that's left-handed, and honestly that seems like a lot more than we have represented. Then again, maybe more are left-handed than we realize. It's not like most people consciously notice when others are left-handed, and it seems like a sort of weird thing to bring up unless someone is complaining about being left-handed or it fits the situation otherwise.

I am left handed…. Just kinda sickening to me that in literally every single book that I've read that not even one single character was left handed…. You'll notice the same thing in tv shows and movies….

My character is left handed and he gets put out of commission because he messes up his left arm.

Left handed main characters!

I'm left handed so I usually have like one or two main characters in my stories who are left handed (Crispin, Gerard, Andor, Milo, Garzlan and Jaire are all left handed… I feel like I'm missing someone though). But using my left hand for things is just so normal for me that I often picture them doing things with their left hand anyways.

But yeah also as a lefty it always makes me like weirdly happy when I find out that fictional characters are left handed and I feel like there's not that many (especially in literature for some reason).

But functional relationships though. That is one thing I respected about Divergent. Some of the relationship was bad and it was acknowledged and they both realized they had to work on things.

The one thing Divergent did well lmao

Actually, on a previous sentiment, I always just see characters as left handed, me being left handed myself.

I want more languages.
Everyone just speaks 'the common tongue' or its mentioned that a character is from another place but never speaks that language.

Not to mention that language barriers are fucking hilarious to work with.

My dude, my buddy, my pal,
I can barely handle writing in 1 language and learning 2, coming up with one would make my head explode

Just make up a language like English that essentially has no rules and you can write gibberish XD

My guy.
You just gotta mash letters together and call it good.
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You use google translate and translate whatever the character says into an obscure language and shift the letters around a bit and BAM you got a language.

You use google translate and translate whatever the character says into an obscure language and shift the letters around a bit and BAM you got a language.

_genius

Thank you… I have my moments. XD

Good tips!
I use google translate for naming places mostly

You know what? I want more pets in books, and owner/pet interactions my cat is sitting on my bed just being precious right now

You know what? I want more pets in books, and owner/pet interactions my cat is sitting on my bed just being precious right now

My characters just got a dog in my story! (Dream wolf technically)

Good tips!
I use google translate for naming places mostly

I used google translate to get the name for the somnia (my characters’ species/race)(somnia is Latin for dreams)

I meanwhile, am creating an entirely new language that I might be able to speak fluently someday. It is also Common. Which is kind of dumb. But I really want to I guess.

My guy.
You just gotta mash letters together and call it good.
ORRRRRRRRRRR
You use google translate and translate whatever the character says into an obscure language and shift the letters around a bit and BAM you got a language.

You could pretty easily get continuity errors with that.

How so?

If it's random you could be making up different words for the same thing each new time you use the word.

Ahhhhh. I see. I usually take notes when I do that though, so I keep track.

Feral scientists

Wow.

Just….
Give me the suave princes and the feral scientists and I'll die happy.
I love them.

When there's several points of view and one of the characters kills one of the other characters SO or something and you see both of their points of view and end up sympathizing with both because it's done so well

I have never seen this and now want to.

1st person or 3rd person?

3rd