Writers do actionsexpressions speak louder than words? How would your character react?

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Writers do actionsexpressions speak louder than words? How would your character react?
Interview your MC with only facial or body expression. No words. They can answer with stuff like shrugs or frowns whilst scratching chin or runs to the other side of the room or slaps him or shakes head.php header.php header.php or nods and other stuff.

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Hahaha! I LOVE THIS QUESTION!brbr Do you like McDonalds?brConfused face.brbr Youre about to die in seconds...brEyes widen... then return to normal size as Ive already been killed off.brbr You open your curtains to find a man standing over the other side of the street staring at you. You dont know him. What do you do?brPunch the person next to me and point in the mans direction.brbr You approach someone to talk to them, but they immediately start talking to you, and you cant get a word in edgewise. How do you react?brWalks away. Plain and simple. brbr You go to bed in your PJs. When you wake up, youre naked. Now what?brCovers self up with blanket.brbr Harold Camping the end of the word guy knocks on your door. Hes wearing a big smile and hands you an envelope with a card inside telling you when the world isreallygoing to end. brGives him a papercut with it for tricking us all the first time.brbr You wake up and see a dead family member hovering over you.brHow do I know theyre dead? Oh crap, not allowed to talk.brForget I said that. Performs memory wiping spell.brHigh fives them.brbr Lets take you back or forward to your high school days. One of your favourite teachers says that he will give you an A on the test you are most dreading and want to succeed in. But then he leans casually across and whispers in your ear that he wants to sleep with you....brKicks him in the balls... and RUN!!!!!!!!brbr Youre at a party and rapping music is blaring out of the speakers. Lights flash all around you and bodies seem to be rubbing you from all directions people dancing. brDances too.brbr You have a love interest. His ex walks up to you two and starts being super friendly. Time is ticking. Ticking away....tick....tock...tick...tock...brBeats up ex.brbrLol.

Would you want to live in a world without suffering?

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Would you want to live in a world without suffering?
is suffering necessary to a good life? Im in a philosophy class and I have to write a paper and I want to get other peoples opionions on the subject because I think it is necessary to have suffering and pain in order to apprecitate things. What do you think?

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I would have to agree with you on that. Suffering is a form of pain, and pain is an opposite to a number of alternative feelings as pain, in a sense, is a feeling. Opposites could include pleasure, comfort etc etc.brbrA world without suffering could not exist within the following philosophical writeup As if there is no suffering, life would become quite meaningless or even not existent would it not? If there is no strive toward something, then what would be the point of it? If you want to have that shiny new car and you strive to get it and finally achieve it and own that car, then what is there to do next? You will, eventually, become bored of that car and pursue something more advanced in its respective field. Basically to say that if you already own something, in whatever essence that something is, you will no longer pursue that individual element. As Karl Popper, in Open Society and Its Enemies, states, quot...human suffering makes a direct moral appeal for help, while there is no similar call to increase the happiness of a man who is doing well anyway.quotbrbrSo back to the basic question. If the world had no suffering, then humanity would possibly strive to achieve a higherlevel of nonsuffering or a varying alternative of a similar subject I believe it is part of who we are as a species to pursue greater achievements.brbrThe Chinese philosophy of Ying amp Yang states that any phenomena such that of say, suffering must consist of two opposing, yet at the same time, complementary pieces to form and complete a whole concept. So this is to say that without suffering, there can be no life as then there is no opposing factor that creates this entity into a whole piece. This can be true of many fanatical concepts and theories of life such as badgood, lifedeath, happysad, updown, letright, forwardsbackwards all these concepts have opposing sides to give the other meaning and existence. As if there is only up, and no down, then how could one call up up, and how could the concept of moving upwards be considered anything at all? As if we are only moving up, then moving up would not be considered up at all, it would just be considered moving as that was the only form of moving there was.

Would You Read My Story?

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Would You Read My Story?
This is the first chapter.

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Sometimes single words can mean everything. Did you know Hemingway once threatened to throw his editor out of a window of a NYC skyscraper over a single word?brbrI read this and every now and then a single word knocks me for a loop. The first one ... I examined my hand with the unscrupulous eye of a nervous monster. Define quotunscrupulousquot for me in this sentence. I dont see anything in my thesaurus that makes that sentence work. brbrquotThe full moon inspires terror in mequot... here I think you are one word short. For a lycan, by the time the moon is full, they have already transformed. They are out of control. There is no terror in the full moon for them. There is only lust for blood. However IF you said quotthe THOUGHT of the full moon inspires terror in mequot, then Id buy it. brbrThere are many little places like that. And what it adds up to is really bordering on being a little heavy on the purple prose. brbrMy question is this ... what kind of a person is this in human form? Are they the kind of person who would say quotI spilled onto the forest floorquot? Or are they the kind of person who would say quotI fell down in the woodsquot? BIG difference in the characterization. brbrRemember that in first person narration, you are using words as a part of your characterization. Right now, I dont know what kind of a person this is but they talk rather flowery. Is is a contemporary person? Male or female? brbrWould they say quotI feasted on the sight of it allthe azure framed by treetops, with a shy sun peeking through the gaps in the trees.quot?? Or something simpler?brbrYou have to go one way or the other. And it all depends on your characterization. This characters voice has to reflect who they are. Right now, from what I see, I would guess someone in the th century perhaps England older person. I cant picture a young person speaking like that. But I am not so sure that is who this person is. If this is your first chapter, the characters words have to TELL me that. They are all you have. See??brbrI think you need to do more work on the character study. I can see you like flowing, purple prose, and in its place, it can work. But for the right character. brbrAlso, I think you need more of a transition in the beginning. You begin by describing this person turning human again. Then you go into a description where they say quotI will never be able to describe itquot But you DO describe it. Then it seems we are back to this person unconscious on the ground in the woods with the body of his or her sister beside them. The transitions arent strong if you are going to tuck that section in the middle about how it feels to be a lycan. Perhaps you want to reverse it. Begin with The full moon ... give the description kind of like a mini prologue and go from there then you can hook the entire changing process together. Try it that way and see if it works. But if you intend to frame the chapter with that description in the middle, your transitions need to be stronger. PaxC