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The Phoenix Rises Again All nerds excel in all areas of knowledge And, if said nerd is in the main character's group, the nerd is the most intelligent nerd in the country, if not the world. |
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But they must have asthma or some similar physical defect
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People of different races or countries always play to stereotypes. For instance, Germans are always millitant and angry, Africans hunt in the wild with spears, The Brittish never miss their Tea time, The French are cowardly snobs, and Indians still live in teepees.
Any character that comes from another country and moves to America must speak perfect english and never refers to things from their own country such as their culture or traditions. Also, no one in your story should ever use foreign things such as measuring distances in kilometers or meters, or heat in degrees celsius, because the American way of doing it is better. Whenever kids have a secret, Adults are always quite slow to catch on to it. The bigger the secret, the stupider the adults. Goes double for parents and police officers. |
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On that note, adults would actually trust and allow a teenager or kid to do investigative work. This is because adults are stupid and miss everything, and kids notice everything.
Also, it's very important that your character not move the plot along. Instead, they should be pulled along from one event to the other by people who either adore or hate them. |
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A Nightmare of Eden Also, it's very important that your character not move the plot along. Instead, they should be pulled along from one event to the other by people who either adore or hate them. |
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avearia People of different races or countries always play to stereotypes. For instance, Germans are always millitant and angry, Africans hunt in the wild with spears, The Brittish never miss their Tea time, The French are cowardly snobs, and Indians still live in teepees. Any character that comes from another country and moves to America must speak perfect english and never refers to things from their own country such as their culture or traditions. Also, no one in your story should ever use foreign things such as measuring distances in kilometers or meters, or heat in degrees celsius, because the American way of doing it is better. Whenever kids have a secret, Adults are always quite slow to catch on to it. The bigger the secret, the stupider the adults. Goes double for parents and police officers. If the German cannot be militant, they are drunk and they carry around a tuba. The only exception to the above rules given by the previous poster is if the character is Japanese. Because everyone loves Japanese people. (My captcha was 'trojan time'. Ohbby.) |
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All ancient civilizations had a secret that could destroy the world or an incredibly expensive and beautiful object that everyone today would die to have. They also have all built lavish temples set with boobytraps to foil whoever wants to steal said object, and the boobytraps are designed to work even after thousands of years; because the ancient architects were JUST. THAT. GOOD.
In fantasy stories, if there is ethnic diversity, there's still no such thing as racism, because fictinal characters always know better. For your main character, unusual clothing is always good. scarves, gloves, and random hats are good, even if it doesn't make sense for the setting; i.e. gloves in the desert, bikini-shorts in antartica, goggles for kids who can't swim, ect. |
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A Nightmare of Eden On that note, adults would actually trust and allow a teenager or kid to do investigative work. This is because adults are stupid and miss everything, and kids notice everything. Or, if the adults don't let the children handle the investigation, they must be portrayed as idiots and jerks, because no adult in their right mind would deny the wisdom of a child. |
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Fantasy stories are easy things. They are not enormous labours of love that require a ridiculous amount of time and effort to work out kinks in the culture. In fact, you can basically ignore every other culture except your main characters', even when it is an epic world-crossing adventure. Those other countries can be planets of hats, everybody likes those. Give them a cool-sounding name and a few vague traits and you're good to go!
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Once you hit 12, you're mature enough to handle anything.
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Lieutenant Obvious Fantasy stories are easy things. They are not enormous labours of love that require a ridiculous amount of time and effort to work out kinks in the culture. In fact, you can basically ignore every other culture except your main characters', even when it is an epic world-crossing adventure. Those other countries can be planets of hats, everybody likes those. Give them a cool-sounding name and a few vague traits and you're good to go! If you do write a fantasy story, never spend time worldbuilding. Just copy and paste it from the Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter (or both) and you're good to go. And your heroes will never come across someone who either has a valid reason to disapprove of them or maybe just doesn't like them because of cultural reasons, unless it is to cause angst. |
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Despite how big a fantasy world is, everyone's heard of your character, or at least the prophecy connected to them.
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The Phoenix Rises Again Despite how big a fantasy world is, everyone's heard of your character, or at least the prophecy connected to them. That's because there should only be one religion for the entire world and only one interpretation of it. It's not like our world's most widespread religions have any variety depending on where you find believers. That religion should also be based heavily off Christianity. |
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Lieutenant Obvious That religion should also be based heavily off Christianity. Even Especially if there are multiple Gods. |
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Yes, and the majority of its clergy should be evil and manipulating the believers for their own ends, as there has never been any evidence of religion helping anyone at all.
Any shamanistic religions and anything resembling Hinduism are the barbaric religions you can give to your less civilized cultures you don't care that much about. (They are evil too, and your main characters need to show them the errors of their ways before the end.) |
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