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What is wrong? (17) (Vocabulary Practice) [ ForB English Lesson ] - Duration: 2:06.

Hello everyone and welcome back to ForB's English lesson video.

My name is Richard.

And today I'm going to say a sentence and I'd like you to try to find the mistake.

Are you ready?

We are now considering to hire another assistant.

We are now considering to hire another assistant.

Could you find the mistake?

Alright, let's try that again but this time a little bit slower.

Are you ready?

We are now considering to hire another assistant.

We are now considering to hire another assistant.

Did you catch the mistake?

Alright, so let's try that again.

But this time, I will show you the sentence.

We are now considering to hire another assistant.

Did you catch it?

Alright, so the mistake is "to hire", so it should be "hiring".

We are considering hiring another assistant.

Alright, so some verbs are used only with an -ing form as an object.

So in this case, "consider" is the verb.

Alright, so let's practice that together.

Please repeat after me.

We are now considering hiring another assistant.

Great!

One more time.

We are now considering hiring another assistant.

Great!

So now you know how to use consider in this type of sentence.

Alright?

My name is Richard.

Remember to click like, share and subscribe.

And I'll catch you next time.

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MEHMETÇİK COME IN SOUTH OF IRAQ IN SUDEKAN. - Duration: 2:19.

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Snow Foam Lance Test : Mothers Car Wash - Duration: 1:29.

hello guys, today we're gonna try mothers car wash as a snow foam

dilute ratio is 100ml in the foam lance

but let's try 150ml

wow

it's very thick

remember.. this is a car shampoo not a snow foam

so don't be surprised if it doesn't work as good as a snow foam shampoo

not working...

you can check the links in the description

hope that helps

thanks for watching and please subscribe

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Thrown Out of Class and Hopping Mad - Duration: 2:36.

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Have a child hos ramped it up

Has to leave their classroom and you the paraprofessional has to take them out right? You have to take them to another location

oftentimes the child is asked to sit in a chair and sometimes we set a timer and

We say when your body is calm

We will

Assess whether you can get back to class

Well, first of all, the child doesn't want to go back to class so they don't care

That's why they so why would they remain calm?

the other is the minute you set a timer and an

Agitated body now has to show that they can sit properly in a chair and be quiet until that time is done

Before they can process is a losing battle

De-escalation

Happens first number one by allowing the body to get rid of agitation

So when you are asked to take that child or you have to take that child out of the classroom to another place

They should have some task to do

Whether it be push-ups

jumping jacks

Some sort of tool in their toolbox something that gets rid of the physical agitation

You and I both know that when I am agitated and upset if

I go and take a walk around the building and come back. I'm more readily available to take

Instruction to help me feel better

But if you ask me to sit still until the timer goes off it's not going to work

After the body has become less agitated

The second thing to teach them is just to be in the present

Now who you finished you got that Audi you got that your Wiggles out now

just sit for a moment and

just look at that picture on the wall of the beautiful setting of the sunset just look at it for a few minutes and

Just settle yourself just concentrate on the Sun

Then I can say let's problem-solve where we're at right now or where we were in the class

But you won't get there

without the other two components

Thanks for watching and I hope you found this video helpful

If you did make sure to LIKE and subscribe so you can never miss another video

I speak and consult on school behavior, and I love to help districts solve some of these problems

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The Real Reason Kris Humphries Is No Longer Heard From Anymore - Duration: 4:32.

Remember Kris Humphries?

It's been awhile since most people have heard his name.

Following his uber-expensive wedding to Kim Kardashian, all the couple had to do was drive

off into the sunset together.

But instead, Kardashian filed for divorce after just 72 days, catapulting the 6-foot,

9-inch hunk right back into irrelevancy.

So what has the pro baller been up to since being ousted from the paparazzi-magnet Kardashian

family?

Here are some of the reasons you don't hear from Kris Humphries anymore.

No cameras

Once Kardashian decided that she was ready to end their marriage, Humphries rightfully

backed away from the spotlight, but she wasn't going to let him go that easily.

Kardashian reportedly wanted to have one last Skype chat session with her ex to apologize

for the way she handled the divorce, and she wanted it all to happen in front of the Keeping

Up With The Kardashians cameras.

Humphries wasn't up for it, and allegedly derailed her plan.

"This is so lame, come on."

"It's not."

"This is lame…"

"Trust me, it's not.

SSH!"

An insider told Radar Online,

"Kris turned down Kim's offer because he didn't want to appear on any of the Kardashian reality

shows ever again.

Kim and Kris haven't spoken since the divorce was made final, and there are no plans to

do so."

Eating healthy with Kris

What many failed to realize during his short-lived reality TV career is that Humphries wasn't

just some dumb, immature jock.

He actually made several business deals before hooking up with his ex-wife, and he has continued

to increase his wealth by diving feet first into various investment opportunities following

their divorce.

In addition to being a franchisee of Five Guys burger joints across multiple states,

the athlete took a leap of faith in 2018 when he decided to venture into the healthy food

business.

After becoming the very first franchisee of CRISP & GREEN, Humphries told Business Wire,

"Walking into CRISP & GREEN for the first time I knew right away it was exactly what

Minnesota needed."

House-flipping

After his divorce, Humphries seemingly disappeared from the glitzy Hollywood scene, but he didn't

stay far away from Tinseltown for long.

Forbes magazine reported in July 2015 that the business-savvy basketball player had plopped

down $6.2 million on a super-glamorous home in Beverly Hills.

Those who believed Humphries was setting down roots in the famous zip code so he could creep

on his ex-wife were surprised when, just two years later, he turned around and sold the

home for $8.25 million!

Make it rain, Humphries!

Giving back

Every now and then, Humphries will pop back up in the press to disclose how he's been

spending his time away from the spotlight, like when he gave all the deets on how his

charity impacts the community.

Maybe he didn't make a huge splash on the courts as a professional player, but he used

his sports knowledge to give back to kids with his annual basketball camp at the Boys

and Girls Club in St. Cloud, Minnesota.

According to Minnesota radio station WJON, The Kris Humphries Foundation Basketball Clinic

taught kids not only how to dribble a basketball, but also how to be well-rounded individuals

on and off the court.

"One of the things I always talk about is just the ability to understand if you're doing

what it takes to become successful."

Sparking controversy

Don't feel too bad that Humphries went from being married to one of the most popular celebs

in the world to a life of obscurity.

If you ask him, he's happy that he's away from the Kardashian-Jenner clan.

Far, far away, to be exact.

Following Caitlyn Jenner's tell-all interview with ABC, when she revealed she would be living

life as a transgender woman, Humphries tweeted, "Man, I'm glad I got out when I did.

[with the hashtag "Gotta do you.]"

"Kris Idiot Humphries tweets 'Thank God I got outta that family in time' and just got

absolutely ripped."

Unsurprisingly, the Twitterverse let him have it, and he followed up with another tweet

to apologize, saying, "I have and always will support Bruce, hence "Gotta do you".

Now I recognize I was too vague and sincerely apologize for the way this came across."

Despite Humphries' backtracking, his comment clearly didn't sit well with Jenner.

"I got too many friends, too many things to do, I don't need haters in my life."

Time for payback?

When Kanye West appeared on Khloe Kardashian's now-canceled talk show, Kocktails with Khloe,

he admitted that he had reached out to Kardashian while she was married to Humphries in an attempt

to woo her.

"And so I started sending her pictures of like certain basketball players that used

to be cool, that now they wear their pants like all up to here, like 'this is your future!'"

According to Radar Online, Humphries was pretty ticked off by West's confession, and he was

considering clapping back in a major way.

An insider revealed,

"[Humphries is] exploring his legal options with the goal in mind of doing a full TV sit-down

and even a book that would hang Kim Kardashian and her family out to dry."

Sounds salacious.

He might be back in the spotlight sooner than we anticipated!

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Wholesaling Homes 101 Is It Wrong? - Duration: 2:01.

One of the cheapest low-cost ways to get into real estate is something called wholesaling

Today, we're gonna go over the process of wholesaling and at the end of this video, I'd like to know your feedback on it

What's going on guys my name is Raoul with ATX Realty 737

And today we're gonna go up the topic called wholesaling

Now before we go into if it's right or wrong or ethical and different things like that

Let's discuss what wholeselling is for example, you have a home

Under distress for whatever reason they know they're gonna get kicked out their home soon, and they need help a wholesaler

Come knock on your door offer you

$100,000 for your home

Sometimes even less take that home on the contract run the numbers on it

Blast it out to a group of investors and say hey

I got a home on the contract for a hundred and thirty thousand dollars the investors say hey, that's a good deal

He goes in and buy that home drop off one hundred and thirty thousand dollars at the title company the wholeseller aka

Birddog the one who knocks on your door

He goes in and take that hundred in that thirty thousand dollars while you the seller go pick up that hundred thousand dollars

You're out of distress

The investor has this money. He's gonna flip it or do whatever you gonna do with it, but that's not your problem anymore

Is that ethical?

It's it wrong that that bird dog aka whole seller who advertised as buying your home

Got away with thirty thousand dollars. The last thing I want to do is cast a dark cloud over a wholesaling

There is some benefits with wholesaling because some homes won't be able to get funded with a traditional loan

so if you ever find yourself in a situation where your home you know

It's not in good shape or different things like that still called on a real estate professional

Have your home get run comps on and get the market analysis on it so you can make an educated decision when saying, okay?

I accept that cash offer

So I hope you learn something and if you really want to see how wholesaling look when it's all said and done

Just take a trip to East Austin

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How to Make a Halloween Treat Bag - Duration: 6:36.

This is about as spooky as I like my Halloween.

For me, it's all about the sweet treats

and the little children in cute costumes.

Hi, I'm Jessica Taylor and in this video,

I'm going to show you how to package up

your Halloween treats in style with the Mini Treat Bag Dies.

To make a treat bag this size,

you're going to need two of the dies,

this large piece here and this smaller piece here.

Next, you'll want to find some pattern paper.

I chose this straight paper and I wanna encourage you

that you don't have to have actual Halloween paper

to make treat bags.

This was from a set that the other side is cameras.

It's not for Halloween at all

but I thought it went well with the ghost

and the purple spooky.

So I chose this striped piece of paper.

When you're using your dies,

you wanna make sure that they go the same direction.

So the top of this bag is this little zigzag

and so when I'm positioning my die on the paper,

I want the ridge side down

and I want to position both pieces

so that the pattern goes the same way.

So to run this through the Big Shot,

I'm using my Magnetic Platform

with a clear cutting pad on top

then I'm going to put my paper down

and first I'll position the larger piece

and then I'll put a clear cutting pad on top of that

and run it through my Big Shot.

When it comes through the other side,

I'll have the first piece for my Mini Treat Bag

then I'm just going to slide this back through,

move my paper back on and I want the top to be at the top

so that the pattern goes the same direction on my whole bags

so I'll put the smaller die frame there

and roll that through.

I'm not sure if I mentioned it

but you wanna cut your paper to six inches wide

so that it will fit the Framelit die for the bag

and also so that it will slide through your Big Shot.

So now I have both those pieces

and you'll notice with this paper

that the backside isn't really Halloween.

It doesn't really match with what I'm going with

and when I fold this, that's gonna kinda show

so I wanna cover that up with some black card stock.

So I'm gonna slide this back through.

Again, make that a platform, clear cutting pad.

I'm gonna put my black card stock down.

I've cut it to three and 5/8 inches wide

and then I just wanna cut out the kinda zigzag pattern here

for the top of the bag

then I'll put a clear cutting pad on top of that

and run it through my Big Shot.

Now that we have all our pieces cut out,

we can assemble our mini treat bag.

So you're just gonna fold on the score lines

so this little piece will have a tab.

This piece will fold up like so

and the bottom will fold up in the back like this.

So the first thing we need to do is attach the two pieces.

So I am going to put a line of Tear & Tape Adhesive

along the small flap

and then I'll just peel the back, enough of it,

and we'll match this tab up to the side

of the larger piece for the bag

then we'll put a piece of tape down one side

so that we can get the back.

Just fold that together

and you wanna give it a little bit of give

so that it forms a pouch

that you can actually put something in

then we'll put one more piece of Tear & Tape

across the bottom piece and fold that up.

Now, I want to insert the black piece here

and if you've cut it a little bit too big,

you might need to trim it down

but I'm just gonna slide that in there.

I want it to be just a little bit higher than the back

so that you can't see the inside design of the paper

and then I am just gonna take a little tiny piece

of Tear & Tape and put it right in the center

and attach it in like that.

So then we can decorate our Mini Treat Bag.

I have a little topper here.

This was actually meant to be the top of a little cello bag

and so it's got a scoreline in it

and I'm gonna use a ghost to cover up that scoreline.

So let's start by stamping our greeting.

I'm gonna say treats for you in Basic Gray ink.

I'm just gonna stamp that at the bottom

of this kind of banner piece

and then I'll go ahead and tape this on.

You can use any kind of tape.

I have my Tear & Tape handy

so I'm just gonna go ahead and use that

and then once you have the adhesive on the back,

you can just put that on the front of your bag.

Next, I'm gonna put spooky

and this is just a die cut sticker

that will fit right over top of that.

For my ghost, I have a little silver foil piece

that will go behind his eyes to make them shimmer.

For that, I'm gonna grab a little different adhesive.

So I'm just gonna use my Take Your Pick tool

to put some glue dots right around his eyes

and then that will help to keep the silver foil in place

then I'll put a couple Stampin' Dimensionals

on the back of the ghost

and we'll center him right over that line

so that his little arms cover it up

then we can take some of this black twine.

It's got a little silver to it

and I'm just gonna tie that in a bow right above the ghost.

And there you have a cute little treat bag

for giving your Halloween treats.

If you'd like more ideas like this

or ideas for stamping and card making,

please visit my website at InkItUpWithJessica.com.

Happy stamping.

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WAD How To: Characters (And Villains) 2018 - Duration: 44:31.

So, we are Words After Dark, a creative coalition of three authors.

I am Ace Layton, I'm a fantasy writer. I'm Alexa Windsor, I am a horror and mystery writer.

I'm Mouse, and I also write mostly fantasy, with some other stuff.

Is this not on?I can just yell. Oh! It works.

So yeah, we're here to talk to you guys about like how to make characters and

then like, what's the basics of what to do with them afterwards.

Basic disclaimers: We kind of like to run these as a discussion-type panel, so if

you have questions, feel free to raise your hands and we'll take some questions

as we go. Secondary disclaimer! We will give you

lots of suggestions about how to do stuff but by no means this is an exhaustive list.

If you already have a method that works for you, then that's fantastic.

Maybe you will get something extra, but like just because we suggest to do

something doesn't make it law. Yes, there's plenty of ways to go about doing things.

What works for one may not necessarily work for all.

We gonna get rolling? Yeah. We're going to start off by talking about the process of

creating characters.

Oh? There we go.

And this process is generally very different for everybody.

Some people get inspired by media, music, videos, you know. Other writing. Video games.

Sometimes it's seeing a character and being like, oh I want to write something

like that, that inspires me. One that I find is, I will find a character in media

and be like, wow, they did that really badly, so now I want

to write that. But inspiration can come from anywhere. I have been inspired by

pictures that I've seen either fan art or just like, original art, even mirrors. Or

I've, you know, seen movies and go wow, I can't, I don't understand why they had

that character do that thing. Why don't I make a character for myself and have them do

the thing I wanted that character to do. Because characters just do that.

Another way you can go about it is, if you're somebody who already has a lot of

characters, a good thing can be to look at what you have, look that we don't have

and maybe explore some of those possibilities. Most writers will

generally start out with a Type, they generally create

like a certain subset of characters and after a while, you want to try something

new and challenge yourself so it's always good to look at what kind of

characters do I usually write and what can I write to contrast that. And also

sometimes you're making a project, whether it's writing a book or doing a

role play and you need a character. So, sometimes the need presents itself to

you before the inspiration does and you have to sit down a bit and go okay, what kind of

space does this person need to fill. These two are really good at thinking of

characters on the fly, They'll know the need that they have

and they'll be able to figure out immediately to fill it. I am a lot slower in

my character creation process. Sorry, I'm recovering from a cold. So what I'll find

is that characters emerge, rather than me being able to sit down and think

through the process. Or I'll be going throughout my day I'll be letting a

character idea simmer and then they'll slowly come together. So, there's really

no pressure in, you know, you thinking that you have to be able to sit down and

come up with one on the fly. Yeah, a lot of the time, so I write like a lot of

like, power or ability based like fantasy, so a lot of the time, I'll take a power

that I don't have... He'll look at something and go oh, that's a really neat concept how can

I apply that concept to a person. Yes

A lot of things that I do in order to give myself inspiration or ideas

especially if I'm trying to develop a character, is that I will actually try to

fill out a character sheet for them, and you can think of this as the D&D

character sheets but also online there are templates where you can fill out

their name, you can fill out their eye color, you can fill out their favorite

foods, things that may not generally come into play during their story but

it's just kind of good for you to know. and you kind of get a feel for that

character and help them become a little more fleshed out, like a person in your

head. At the same time, I don't think you should only focus on those things or the

physical traits because those aren't going to be the things that show up in

your work. Things on character sheets are great references. They ask you

questions that you can focus on specifically rather than being like, oh I

need to make a person where do I start? They give you kind of a shopping list, but you

can't really be beholden to them because they really only give surface

information. So, if you're ever stuck they are good things to start but

you're gonna have to do the rest of the legwork yourself. Or if you need to keep

track of things, especially if you're writing a series. I've actually I had a

situation for my books, where I had a character that I was writing for several

years and I sat down to write the novel and I was like I don't

remember what eye colour I gave this guy. I had to go and dig through years of notes try and find it so

sometimes it's nice to have it organized.

Another thing that's kind of interesting to think about is coming up with

zodiacs for your characters. You can either do it where you pick out their

birthday and you know, kind of see what characteristics might come as a result

of what zodiacs they have, or they have kind of reverse tests where you can

think of your character and what they might do in a certain situation and what

they're like, and you can plug it into a personality test and it will generate a

zodiac based on the information that you've got. And that's kind of good way to

get an idea of certain character traits that you may not have thought of before

and it kind of gives you an idea of how you can maybe flesh out their dynamics.

It's definitely not something I would do for every single character because

you're going to get more canned character types but it can be good if you're

struggling or if you if you need a starting place. Yeah they can give you

good jumping-off points. Any online survey, online test that you do for your

personality for fun, you can run your characters through just to see if you

can come up with something interesting to take away from it.

So, one thing I should go over while we're talking about defining our

characters is I don't think it's generally a good idea to to get too into

the weeds with defining everything about your character before you write them. The

reason for this, is at least in my experience, I've found that when you make

the character and you have enough to where you're going to go and write them,

a lot of the times they'll turn out a little differently than you

originally thought they were going to, and that's normal. That's... there's no way

you're going to sit down and be able to know exactly how they're going to act

when you're creating them, and if you leave yourself some space and don't

define everything beforehand then it gives you a little more wiggle room to

allow for that kind of growth, and that's how you get more nuanced characters.

Characters have the fascinating tendency to write themselves as

you're going through the story and sometimes they can surprise you. So,

your goal is to get to the point where your character is consistent enough that

you can allow them to do that. Because that way the growth is more organic

and it is more interesting, generally. So you want to write them, find

excuses to write them. Write them in short stories and in one-shots,

stick them in fanfic and write them in rps. Not only are all those

good practice for you as a writer, but they're good excuses to see your

character interacting with other situations and people, and all that will

help you figure out how distinct they are and what kind of things you can

expect from them when you write your own work. Also, don't be afraid to ask

questions! Yes! Stick your hand up, it's fine. One exercise that I like doing if I ever get

kind of stuck with characterization or kind of like stuck in thinking of a plot,

is I have a character describe each of the other characters through their own

words, basically doing the exercise as to what they think of everyone else who's

around them. Now that's really handy in more than one way because not only does it

give you more information on the character that you're writing, or whose these perspective you're writing from,

but it can give you the demeanors of the other characters and how them come off

to other people. I think I did not know you did that.

I did it for Brave Until Dark. Oh!

Also, we kind of skipped over this part, sorry about that, things like the physical description of the character, a lot of

that isn't necessarily super tied to their demeanor and how they act but you

can find ways to tie the description to who they are. Like what kind of job do

they have, where they live, all that kind of stuff will define what kind of

clothes they wear. Their personality will define like the kind of style that they

like to have, are they a person who likes loud colors, or a person who likes

mostly black. You you talked about not getting into the weeds talking about

all the details of the characters, how much backstory is too much backstory?

Because I find that I have- (When it ruins your life) Knowing a character's full

backstory is going to be good for you to know. You don't necessarily have to put

it all in the work. My point was more before you start writing them too,

because a lot of times you do write them and it turns out a little differently. If you

flesh out their entire backstory and then you write, them you've kind of boxed

yourself in to where now they have to go with whatever your backstory is, even if,

we've had a lot of rps happen where something awesome, some awesome

character development will happen that we hadn't planned for, but Did it make it

into the books? Probably. Yes. But if you like, do all on that before you actually start

writing them then you kind of lose some of that freedom. So, it's really up to you,

some people prefer way more structure. I guess, character- Bear in mind that when

it makes it onto the page, anything can be changed in editing. It's very

subjective. You want enough to give your character a sense of consistency and you

don't want to have enough that you have no flexibility. Where that line is really

depends on how what you want to have. I mean again, there's nothing wrong if you

actually are the kind of person who wants to detail down every single thing, if that

makes you feel more comfortable writing the character, do it! It's just that

that's not always the case. So yeah, you will figure it out, I guess, is the really

unsatisfying answer. Go ahead! I was told to never make a side character

more interesting than your main character. Like, how much detail do you put into a character before that happens?

That is terrible advice first of all. That's dumb. The truth of the matter is your

main character is going to take more time to create just because more more of

them is going to be shown, but a book is just a story about people. If your side

character is that interesting just give them a spin-off project. It's fine. Will people

judge you? Does it matter? If your side character turns out to be more fleshed

out and more interesting, consider making them the main character. Yeah, there really is no rule

saying that your side characters can't be interesting. Actually, this is an anime

convention so you all might be familiar with this. If you watch a show and you

decide you hate the main character and you only end up watching it because the

side cast is so much more entertaining?

So that is that is a thing that happens! It's a good thing to try and avoid when

you're sitting down and like putting your work together but when you're just

playing with ideas? Who cares. I would say actually, a genre that intentionally

invokes that would be your typical harem anime actually. Oh yeah, because your main

character has to be a stand-in for the viewer, yeah. So they're like kind of boring

and milquetoast, who cares about them, but then like then fate decrees that

this character is orbited by characters, people- Who are hopefully more

interesting and not cookie cutter stereotypes.

That's a case where it works for the genre. In the sense of world-building characters When do you know

that you have enough characters for the setting?

You probably will not know if you have cast until you sit down to write the thing.

Outlines will also help that, because you'll be able to see how, much how many

characters and when your characters are popping up. But sometimes you just sit

down to write something and you go oh no I need someone to do this. I need this

person to say something to move the plot forwards and you're like, oh great I

wrote myself in a corner. It happens, throw someone else in there,

but getting organized decreases the chance of that happening.

A lot of that is by feel, too. Because like I know this book, I had a side

character, a fairly important side character, that started out as just a

name that was going to be referenced once and- She runs half the book. Yeah, she's

in a lot of the book. So a lot of that is when you're writing it you'll get a feel

for that. Also beta readers can kind of help with that. If you give it to a beta

reader and they say hey, this world feels kind of empty then that's a sign that you

might need more people.

We had a question, the purple hair?

So what would you recommend if someone has trouble with

say, when they write the character out sometimes putting in their own choices

instead of what they think the character would actually do.

Okay, the main character of this book is basically me but with a few background

alterations. That explains why I like her so much.

It's okay to like have a lot of your mannerisms manifest in a character

because ultimately you're gonna be writing what you know, and a little piece of you

is gonna wind up in the work anyway. It also it depends what you're going for, too.

Like, there are times when you're gonna want the main character that isn't

anything like you and in those cases, it's really a matter of developing the

character (practice) Yes, to the point where you can write them and they are

their own. I always say, you shouldn't be writing the character, they should

be writing themselves and it's really just a lot of practice and like keeping

yourself separate from that.

I was gonna say, Alexa totally has a point in that you're always going to end up

with like remnants of yourself in whatever you write, it's like nearly

impossible to scrub out even if you try. But the more you focus on what makes the

character different from yourself the more chances you'll have to embrace

those traits and practice writing in the character. Going back to writing

yourself into a corner, I had that experience once and when I couldn't

figure out what to do, I wrote up a short story to clear my head and wound up

making that the chapter, but I had to do heavy editing

because it actually violated a whole lot of the rules that beforehand were in the

actual story. Organization. But also I think that's great

Yeah, it's a good solution. Books and stories are flexible things and I think a lot of

people don't look at them that way, but you can change them if you don't like

something you can change the way it's going. Also I know we'll touch on

canons a little later but I find that- Canon is not law. It's really good

to, especially if you have a character that are your just came up with and you

you're not comfortable writing them in maybe their what their book is going to

be, it can be good to write things that you know are non-canon. Write them going

to the grocery store, write then having a conflict with someone, write them with

characters they haven't appeared with yet. How would they interact with those

characters? That's also why RP or co-writing is such a great tool in

learning how to write your characters because it's like book-lite, you

don't have to worry about all the details. Co-writing also

great because you can't slack off because you know someone's waiting for your reply.

So if you're a person who likes to procrastinate, it won't work.

We had more hands.

In the white shirt, up here. I'm sorry, this is more of a general question, but what

are your guys best resources for trying to find like co-writers and beta

readers and stuff like that when you don't have anybody that can help you

with your process? Alexa & Mouse: Our discord! We have a great little community that we've fostered

over the past year and a half on our discord server that's all authors and

creative people in general. Other than that, Facebook groups. It can

be hard because, I don't know if you are in the same boat that a lot of people are

where you grow up and these people are everywhere and then

all the forums and all the places we grew up with no longer exist, so you

can't find them anymore. They just all moved to discord. It's true we're all there. Come find us.

You mentioned character development and allowing things to change over the course of a story but do you have any tips for writing

convincing change or like having a character change in a way that it's not jarring

but still surprises. I'm going to take this. You want to make sure that you build

yourself a good support system. My best example for this is, I have the main-

I think Ashen Path is up here- The main character in Ashen Path, Her name's Anna,

She's a bitch. She's not. She's kind of humorless and she's very strict and the

whole book is kind of a her coming to be a more reasonable human being without

losing the parts of her that make her what she is. She's a knight and she's

very good at her job that she's very committed to it. So how do I make her

more human without sacrificing her commitment to her work. I, first of all you want to make

it a reasonable change. People aren't usually gonna do one eighties and if

they do it's going to be very uncomfortable. And if

they do do a one-eighty it's going to be something huge that causes that. So,

you want make sure the growth is in sustainable steps, you want your reader to

be able to follow along. Oh this is an example of that kind of growth, this is

like her first time that she did this. Well, what prompted her to do that?

Everybody has motivations. What would motivate the character to- So

motivating her to be less of a pain in the ass.

I gave her another character to encourage that kind of behavior. She was

like oh, well he's not mean, so I can't be mean to him because then everyone is gonna look

at me like I'm a jerk. So it helped her take those small steps because it's

going to be a gradual development. Build yourself a good skeleton, make

yourself like marks that you want to hit in their development and how you want to

get there and that'll help it come off as more paced and more normal, I think rather than having it happen suddenly. Also negative character

development is still character development. Do you want to- You wrote a whole book about that. Yeah, so, I won't spoil it but

the villain in this book, you basically get to see how they kind of unravel. They

start off the book as a fairly normal person and over the course of the book

they unravel into this kind of self-serving villain, and that is also

character development. Even though they're turning into a worse person than

they were. Sliding down all the way to the other end of the scale of morality

still counts, that's still change. We had, way in the back...?

I thought we had a question way in the back.

Sometimes the character of the villains are

kind of ironically misunderstood

Sometimes their backstory is like, real dark.

And it's kind of like when you read many Marvel comics about... they just want to be kind of considered team players or leaders.

It just kind of makes sense for the character.

So what's the question?

Pardon? Some characters, there could be a the backstory that is essential to the character.

Oh! A character regardless of whether or not they're a villain

can get misunderstood for their motive. You can fight a hero who's doing moral

things for all the wrong reasons just as you can have a villain doing wrong things

for the wrong reasons. If a hero is doing it for glory

does that make them more of a good person or a bad person? If they're doing

it by taking out another hero so they get the spotlights does that make them more

of a good person or a bad person. A villain can be trying to do good things and then wind

up, you know, like, when people perceive them they think wow, this is a terrible

thing you've done. But they were trying to do what was good in their head,

that's an interesting character trait and that can also be developed.

So um, something

Something like that is

I like to watch the movie or episode of Batman, kind of like that.

I think it was more of a comment than a question. Oh, okay. I find my stories, once I

hit the end of the usefulness of a character, turning into a George RR

Martin bloodbath. How do you exit characters without them dying.

One of the ways you can cut down on your massacring is by seeing if you can make

the characters you have more multipurpose. Can they fulfill more roles

and do more things maybe involving character development to play those roles, so

that way they remain useful for your story.

And sometimes maybe they can just get in a car and drive away.

Put them on a bus.

Also, outlines will help you with that. Yeah,

Again, again, getting organized will help you cut down on the amount of extra people you have laying around

Which will give you less people to kill off

We all hate outlines but they're great. Oh yeah, no look we we will tell you write them

and we'll sit down and write them, but we still hate them. Okay well, just in

like terms of like, you know, the extra character blood bath thing one thing I

try to avoid in my writing is unnecessary killing, and not because I'm squeamish,

oh no, but because once you kill off a character any narrative potential

that character may be able to provide is gone.

Yeah, it's a waste. So it's like, very definitely, if the best way to enhance

the narrative or a character to give motivation is to kill somebody then go

for it. Within the context of fiction, I'm not telling you to go out to kill

someone else. Are you sure?

I would much rather put that character on ice in some way. That can

be as little as just shifting the narrative spotlight away from them, just

because if the audience does not, isn't seeing what's going on with that

character, often they will assume that it's because nothing

interesting is going. You know, one thing I've noticed is that when

a series that has a lot of character deaths, people will find themselves trying not

to get attached to characters because they know that there's a good

chance that character is gonna die down the line. That's the Sword Art Online problem.

So, you want the balance of people dying, oh wow that's a huge tragedy, but you know it's

good for their character arc, you know, that their usefulness is in the

death, for you, as a writer but the same time you don't want every character

dying because no one's going to want to get attached. That was actually exactly

what happened with me and sword art online, is I started watching it and then

they killed, they kept killing off characters and they'd bring in a new

person that I couldn't get attached them because I didn't know if they were

gonna survive the episode. Spotlight shifting is not a bad idea,

the downside is that, like any solution, if you use it too many times

people are just going to be like, people just disappearing? Where'd the cast go? So it is

totally an option, especially if you have like a rotating cast. Both of the Melankholia

books have very big casts and we actually use that a lot because they're not all

doing something interesting all time, but you I want to make sure that you

eventually tie that up or give some kind of offhand reference to give your reader

closure because otherwise it's like they're poof! gone. I'm curious about how you do description without it sounding

like he or she looked like this, this and this. Like how do you do that in an

interesting way? I will do it like, if it's a new character being introduced

think about the character who's meeting them, what are they going to notice first?

That's a really good way to give you two types of characterization simultaneously.

The character whose perspective you're writing from, from what are they going to notice, what

are the things that stand out when they meet someone and also that tells you

what stands out about your character and sometimes you can look for ways to

demonstrate that.

Things like physical description you'll have lots of chances to talk about

people are looking at this other person with their eyeballs, usually, so it's really

easy to make an offhand comment about something they're wearing or their hair

color. And their demeanor and things like that that will come up in the way you

write them so a lot of times those like page-long descriptions just aren't necessary

to get the point across. Show, don't tell. You don't necessarily have to like list

a person's entire physical description all in one paragraph right away.

And your reader isn't going to see them the way you see them.

Let's do black shirt then white shirt. And then flower crown.

I had a friend who was writing a story and he found that he was killing

off all of his characters too quickly, and since it was a mythological story he

decided to take on, sort of turn it into a Valkyrie-style arc. A lot of the

characters were introduced more by reputation than actual physical

introduction long before they appear. In some settings that will work just fine

especially if you're writing a character who has a reputation you can leverage like that. So yeah, that's a valid tactic.

You had a question?

What kind of advice do you guys have

for trying to write a villain

who you don't want to know he's the villain? And it's so cliches and it- No, that's my favorite.

Without everyone else being like oh, that's a bad guy. He's the bad guy.

You could always kind of write yourself a side story about what's that villain is

perceiving throughout your main story because they're gonna be behaving in

ways that you don't want your reader to know, like they're the villain but there

are very small hints that, you know, will probably show itself through the main

story. Villains generally take more work

because you usually have to give them more motivatio,n because people usually

aren't motivated to be jerks. So for someone like, that specifically someone who lays

low for like 95 percent of your book, you're actually making two different

characters. You're making a villain as the person running around doing villain

things and you're also crafting their persona, who they are presenting for the

rest of the world. So you can very deliberately make these two things

concurrently. You can be like, Okay this is the reason why they're

doing this villainy, this is what this means, this is what the plan is, and then you can go

okay in order to get that done what kind of mannerisms do they adopt? Why

do you think those mannerisms work? What kind of their own mannerisms are going

to- Yeah what bleeds through? Yeah but, yeah, like you're you're making two

people, and thinking about it that way might help you set it up in a way

that makes the persona sufficiently distanced from whatever is not the character.

we have one question

So, I'm writing a fanfic that I started way back in highschool

years ago, and I started to follow the game that was based on, I started to

do it like word by word, basically, scene by scene

Now that I'm older I want to kind of build away from that. How do I make it

still have the feel of the place I am basing it on but make it my own?

You're early, you're here for tomorrow's panel. Tomorrow we have plot and world-building. But it is a good

question. Do we want to cover that or do you want to come and talk to us

afterwards and we'll get into that, since it's just a little bit off topic? Okay we're gonna,

we're gonna get through the rest of our notes quick and then we'll take

questions. Yeah, because the questions are very good. We're gonna jump into the like

common writing hang-ups which may help answer some of your questions.

When you're writing a character a lot of times

people are afraid to write people whose experiences significantly differ from

their own. A lot of times that's writing someone of a different gender, or different

orientation, or maybe writing someone of a different race. All of those things are

perfectly good things to do when you're a writer, you work to have a diverse

and interesting cast. The world is diverse interesting so why would you not? But

it's very easy to do badly, and it's easier to do badly if you're lazy. You

want to take those characters and you want to develop them with as much

empathy as you would everyone else Actually, I'm going to specifically talk about writing

characters of another gender. People tend to get very hung up about this um and I'm not

gonna I'm not going to name any names but if you go on Twitter you can find

examples of male authors who can't write female characters.

You know when you've seen them.

So, actually, we have a male author right here who can write female characters.

How do you do it? You don't treat them any differently

than you would treat a male character.

Oh my god, are you telling me women are people?

I've had people tell me not to write women before, I've had people ask me how you

do it you do it. You do it as well as you write a guy or any other orientation. The real

difference is societal context. That's going to give you the differences in a

lady versus a dude. Some societies, it doesn't matter. A lot of the- We were trying to come up with a bad

example and we realized that all of the books that we write generally occur in

societies where it's irrelevant. So both of the Melankholia books are written in

this kind of dark world where there's much larger problems to worry about than

whether two girls are sleeping together or that kind of thing so,

whether you're a guy or a girl it doesn't matter. Its completely irrelevant in that context.

The main character the first book is is a girl. And actually the main character o the second book is also-

Oh, yeah, two different ladies who go and fight monsters and they're not

treated any differently than the guys who are going to fight monsters. A

counterexample to that is, Anna's not exactly a great example, but A different

medieval-style fantasy book. Think of your medieval-style fantasy and think of a lady who wants to

be a knight as opposed to a guy who wants to be a knight. I'm sure you can come up with

a hundred examples. She's gonna have a much harder time being a knight than a guy does.

And that's just the kind of stuff that you worry about when you're

writing. That's tomorrow's panel, plot and worldbuilding. In my books, it takes place in modern day Chicago. Chicago is a very

diverse place, so my characters will meet people of different orientations,

different, you know, races, different skin colors. So I I remind myself that each

character should be a person in my mind. and I will have people from, you know, of

that skin color, you know, make sure that I'm not falling into stereotypical- Yeah! If

you're worried get someone to check your work! That's not illegal and its not bad.

Hand it to a beta reader and go, does this make me look like an asshole? I'm gonna squish these last two into one point.

Um, people like to talk about writing balanced characters. They tell you to

stay away from writing Mary Sue's and both of those are terrible advice. The

thing is that not all characters are balanced. Every person that you meet has

flaws but the fact is that not every character's flaws are going to be

important, and when you're looking at like a list of character traits some

flaws don't stay flaws and sometimes what should be bonuses then become them.

If a character is stubborn, that's not a bad thing, like they're not afraid to do

the things they have to. You find a lot of heroes who are stubborn, but I mean

you'll find villains who are just the same, because it borders on obsession at

that point. They're both stubborn so that trait itself does not make them balanced or unbalanced.

And we're not clearing all Mary Sue's, we're just saying

Mary Sues are usually a problem with the characters around them rather than the characters

themselves. You can write a character who has like,

wild, crazy and obnoxious powers, sure. You can write a character who's sheer wish

fulfillment, but the scenarios that you put them in

should still be fairly suitable and fairly reasonable for what the character is doing. If

the character has those kind of skills, the problems that they face will still

be challenges for those skills. Did you know that Batman is practically a

power-trip Gary Stu. So is Iron Man.

For sure.

He's a really fun character to explore for a lot of different reasons but he's totally

a power trip. That doesn't make them bad! On the other end of the spectrum, Superman is often

called out for being a Mary Sue, but if people actually read the stories they'll

find that his situations are actually pretty challenging for what he

definitely does. Thank you. You could fit in a lot of people

complaining about comics with, well, if you actually read comics... So, we can do questions. Like 5 minutes of questions.

This way to that way? Yes.

What are some good ways to display a villain's, like, overarching power, to show

that they are strong, lot stronger than the hero, without basically being like hey,

you know that mentor you've been training with? I'm going to kill him. You're going to want

to give your villain successes. Depending on how you set-up that hero

killing that mentor might not even be on that villain's to do list. Figure out what your villain's

plan is and give them those successes that make them a measurable threat.

What is your villain doing when he is not going after the main character?

Surely something had to have happened on his rise to power, if he was

destroying cities, you know, have someone see how he destroyed the city.

How do you start an outline?

You can either do it chronologically where you start from beginning to end...

I personally like a style of outlining where I take whatever ideas I have

and I put them on the page, then I try to connect the dots and then I slowly make that more

detailed. It's really what is gonna serve you the best ? I know, I think, both

me and Mouse do, like we do a grid of boxes for chapters, and then we have a

just like a sentence or two of what happens in the chapter, but it's going to

be, it's whatever you need in an online. Do you outline the whole entire story and then go back and connect everything? There's also a thing called

the snowflake method, that kind of gives you that sort of flexibility, where you

put it all down, but you might not be sure where your background will fit into

everything? So you'll have the main story, but the snowflake method it will allow

you to have a branch where you can put your background. You can kind of pull

from that and put it into your main outline. To answer your question,yes, or at least I

outline the whole story and that gives you a good picture of like, well

especially in this book, since this book had so many people, it let

me go back and look and see oh, this person showed up in chapter three and in

chapter eight, but then they're not seen again until chapter 20, maybe I should

stick them in somewhere, like have a scene with them somewhere. There's a

bunch of different kinds of outlines. There's tons. Depending on what you need you can

find one that will suit your purpose. It also depends on what kind of writer you are, some

people like really detailed outlines. Like Ace said, our outlines normally do cover

the whole plot but they're very bare-bones, we play with them as we go, but

there are just lots of different styles. You can find one that works for you.

If you want, I have a master list that I found somewhere of kind of

suggested outlines so if you come and grab me after the panel I can find

the link.

This person has had their hand up the whole time.

Yell!

Is it possible to write a villain that isn't,

that doesn't necessarily have an understood background? I mean, the Joker exists. That doesn't have justifications for their evil? Like a character that's just...

I mean, the Joker exists. Actually one of my favorite villains I play with personally is someone

who does it because I think it's fun. It's their hobby. I mean they have a day

job and everything but being a villain is like their actual hobby. And can I also throw out

Aku, from Samurai Jack Aku means evil.

Backstory doesn't have to be the focus, it does not even necessarily have to

exist if you can read them consistently without it. You do you, basically.

Um, how do you

make a

anti-hero.

You make a hero but you make them darker.

No, it really is somebody who

usually intends to do something good who just isn't really super hung up on the

morals it takes to get there. So give them a motivation, give them

something that they want to achieve and figure out what kind of lengths they would

go to get there and what differentiates them from like a more traditional hero.

Adversely, they just kind of got flung into this saving the world business and

they're just like, okay fine, I guess no one else is gonna do it, I may as well

Are we gonna have to wrap?

They're gonna kick us out in just a couple minutes

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