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How to avoid character inconsistency in your writing

Set your character boundaries:

What's the background?

What's your character's backstory?

What are their traits, and how do they portray them?

Know what keeps your characters motivated. (Are they reaching their goal?)

You can avoid quick shifting of scenes. Let your readers absorb the setting of the scene.

Ensure that their actions and decisions align with their development and growth.

Tip 1: Start your chapter with a scene or dialogue that comes back at the end, which helps maintain consistency.

Tip 2: Throughout the chapter avoid the fast pacing of the story, rather let the characters express themselves so that it's clear for the readers.

Consider how your characters react to situations that are hard to convey. (Do they feel nervous? Scared? Fearless?)

Dialogue writing is crucial in explaining your character's personality while writing a story.

This process requires lots of re-reading and writing, fixing character holes and rewriting character arcs.

I give myself what I want. It's why I write them, to change the story and to bring to life what goes on in my mind. Even if it's trash and nobody wants it, at least it's MY trash, and all that matters if I want it.

Don't you think you owe it to readers to give them what they want?

No? What an odd take. Read my fic or don't.

I hate that I can vividly imagine all of this....

and now that season 5 is finished…

What are the bad writing decisions, you can predict for season 6 ?

just for laughs

Off the top of my head, I'd say

Marinette won't feel guilty about hiding the truth from Adrien at all.

Adrien will learn the truth about his father from Lila, but he won't hold Marinette accountable because he thinks that he was still a good person or because Marinette "Did it out of love".

Lila will create some new kind of Akuma that's supposedly meant to be more powerful, yet more often than not, it's just used on the same targets (Mr. Pigeon, Gigantitan, Glaciator, etc.).

A good chunk of Ladybug's team (seriously, it's been five seasons and we don't have an official name for this?) will be busy overseas for very mundane reasons and can't be bothered to come back and help Ladybug until the finale.

Either that, or Lila manages to recruit some of the temp heroes to her side so we can have another Battle of the Miraculous.

We'll get a new disabled character or a character who's a person of color, and while Astruc will boast about how inclusive this makes his show, they'll only appear for an episode or two at most.

Ngl Emilie doesn't sound any better. Adrien literally said he was homeschooled for YEARS and that his DAD wouldn't let him go out, so Chloe was his only friend. LIKE WHERE WAS EMILIE IN ALL THIS?! WHY DIDN'T SHE GET HER SON PLAYDATES WITH OTHER PEEPS!

I swear, Emilie doesn't even sound like a good parent. She—and her sister—used the peacock miraculous to get their babies, and she just kept her kid in a gilded cage with only one other parrot to keep him company.

Don't even get me started on how she neglects her sister's wellbeing. Emilie was clearly the stronger sister, since apparently she willingly got herself disowned by her parents, and yet *crickets* on helping Amelie or Felix get out of an abusive situation. NOTHING!

Another way the lack of flashbacks harms the Agreste story os that, while the show tells us that Gabriel's cold and distant attitude is a recent development due to Emile's death (because somehow only a year has passed in-universe across five seasons) and that he was supposedly a far better father prior, the impression the viewers get is that this is his norm.

With how much emphasis the writers put on Emilie being this amazing mother and how much her death affected Gabriel, there'd be some kind of twist regarding their relationship. Because, come on, there's no way there'd be so much talk about this couple without some kind of dark secret before Emilie fell ill. And then Season 5 was like "Nope, Emilie really was this super amazing person who would be perfectly okay with Gabriel committing mass genocide in her name." and thought saying that was enough.

I do no. 1 and no. 5 a lot. The problem I have is that I can't force the ideas, but then I feel bad about not working on them...

how to go from daydream to draft:

begin by daydreaming as you normally do, or just after you've finished doing so. write down every thought you have. one after another. do not reread. do not stop for spelling mistakes. just dump out every thought. this is called stream of consciousness writing. you can do this for every scene you need a first draft for.

struggling to draft the scene? try to daydream about it. start thinking about how it would look, feel, what the characters would say, act it out in your head and then write out the stream of your thoughts as they arrive.

by now you have a few scene dumps. you may be tempted to go back and edit. do not do this expect for obvious spelling mistakes. do not read closely and start thinking "i need to rework this sentence." that is for later. now you're in the zone. draft more scenes. or work out what the next scene needs to be, scaffold it with a few comments. this will be the inspiration for your next deliberate thought stream that you will write out. repeat this process until you have the whole draft.

now that you have a draft or part of a draft you get to do this very fun thing called revise until you're happy. sweep through your draft with specific goals each time. one sweep to fix spelling/grammar. another for character voice. another for plot. repeat until you're happy with it.

leave it alone. just leave it for a bit. at least a few hours or days or even weeks. forget it exists. this will allow you come back with fresh eyes. then you can do your revisions with an eagle eye. now you may realize you need to add/remove scenes. you know how to get the first version down. close your eyes and daydream at your desk if that's what takes!

remember that fiction writing is persuasive writing. you are trying to persuade the reader to care about what happens next, the character's, the world, the feelings. as you're revising, consider whether you are persuaded. is the feeling/thoughts you wanted to provoke being felt by you when you read it? when working with beta readers, be sure to communicate what you're trying to convey so they can tell you if you've been successful or not.

this got a bit beyond getting the first draft done. hope you found it helpful.

bonus tip: check the spellings of names and places and other nouns that are not typically used, like the name of a magic tool!

Alex Hirsch. At least he knows how to make a thriller/mystery with some REAL plot twists and character growth, while also knowing how to interact with his audience over social media.

If you could choose any creator to helm a ML reboot/rewrite, who would you choose?

(My picks fwiw would be to make it a comic series written by Gene Luen Yang and illustrated by Dan Mora.)

I'm not sure to be honest. Sorry.