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Tried Something New Here. I Wanted To Do A Piece On My Body Dysmorphia. Ive Always Thought Those Little
Tried something new here. I wanted to do a piece on my body dysmorphia. I’ve always thought those little “ToonMe” style drawings that artists would do were super cool and I found it the perfect way to convey what I wanted.
I wanted to portray less how I see myself and more how I feel about myself. How does dysmorphia make me feel most days? Grotesque, deformed, ugly, monstrous, fat. All of those awful descriptors are how I feel about myself almost all day every day. My perception of myself and my body is warped.
It’s honestly a vile disorder. What it does to you and how you think about yourself. One day, with enough treatment and time, I want to know what I actually look like. To see myself as I am and not what my disorder tells me I am. I’ll get there. One day.
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How do you introduce an antagonist into a story? I'm stuck. They are important to the plot.
Introducing the antagonist…
The antagonist should be introduced in a memorable way that is useful to the story. However, first appearances and introductions can be different thing, and introducing them as a character versus introducing them as the antagonist can be two separate events entirely.
When you’re introducing the antagonist, you should keep in mind what the reader knows, and what they have yet to learn. Sure, maybe they know this person is the main character’s roommate, and they’re finding out that this roommate has helped their significant other cheat on them, but they don’t know that the roommate has held a grudge since high school which informed the decision to help them cheat. The antagonist’s introduction should be a strategic disclosure of key information.
The introduction should also be memorable enough to evoke its own details in future scenes regarding the character. Perhaps what they say or do in their introduction should come up later. Their introduction should act as a bookend to their arc throughout the novel, so keep the ending in mind as you write their beginning. You must also be mindful that this is probably the first (or a new first) impression of that character on the reader, so you want to set the tone for their presence in the story and offer some preliminary character development for the reader to build on as the plot progresses.
Here are some other resources you may find helpful:
Resources For Describing Characters
How To Fit Character Development Into Your Story
Making Characters Unpredictable
Writing Good Villains
Giving Characters Distinct Voices in Dialogue
Gradually Revealing Character’s Past
Tips on Introducing Characters
Creating Villains
How To Write A Good Plot Twist
How To Foreshadow
Tackling Subplots
Tips On Dialogue
Writing Intense Scenes
Tips on Writing Flashbacks
Describing emotion through action
A Guide To Tension & Suspense
Foreshadowing The Villain
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