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Fanfic cliches
mare:
Yes we are! lmao
bananaaddict:
This thread has drawn me in. I guess its because I hate cliches too. I find myself looking for unique stories, but they get harder and harder to come by. Another thing I hate, which is more a pet peeve, is people who use a TON of flashbacks. I know I'm guilty of using them, but I try to limit it. I do have a dilema though. How do you tell the back story without using flashbacks?
mare:
--- Quote from: bananaaddict on June 23, 2007, 09:02:17 PM ---This thread has drawn me in. I guess its because I hate cliches too. I find myself looking for unique stories, but they get harder and harder to come by. Another thing I hate, which is more a pet peeve, is people who use a TON of flashbacks. I know I'm guilty of using them, but I try to limit it. I do have a dilema though. How do you tell the back story without using flashbacks?
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Oh yes, the flashback lol that's another one. The thing I don't enjoy about those are when people actually write
---------flashback--------- if we can't tell it's a flashback you're doing somethng wrong.
But let's see how to go back to the past without flashing back...*rubs chin to reminisce*
---------flashes back to when I wrote flashbacks-------
I think using italics helps sometimes instead of flashing back just going inside someone's head to find out what happened? Or sometimes using dialogue to tell a story about what happened in the past but keeping it real time? Those are two things I use, or also the use of a journal or diary, having the character reading it out loud, although that can be a bit cliched as well.
----------ends flashing back to flashingback-----------
^ as long as you don't use those lol
:)
bananaaddict:
--- Quote from: mare on June 23, 2007, 09:10:55 PM ---I think using italics helps sometimes instead of flashing back just going inside someone's head to find out what happened? Or sometimes using dialogue to tell a story about what happened in the past but keeping it real time? Those are two things I use, or also the use of a journal or diary, having the character reading it out loud, although that can be a bit cliched as well.
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Yeah, I use italics for flashbacks now, but I didn't want it to be too much. I thought about a dialogue with another person, but right now the main character is alone and this event needs to be told while she's alone. I may try the journal thing. Hopefully I can pull it off without seeming too cliched.
mare:
^ aww good luck! :)
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