I'm 14 years old going on 40... aka Unbelievable Characters.

[Solus Magus]

On 10/17/2017 at 10:00 AM, Dmrman said:

I like it...!!!!!! We spend to much time in the box...Which means we are just" Dreaming" at that point... I want to be in the midst of the total" Vision", Not the snippetts..!!! If you see the whole vision, you create diverse options you cant see from the dream..., or even remember...!  the possabilities grow from the vision , where as in a dream you become limited by the environment from the box...!  From not so much what the Majority thinks, that's to easy... But looking at it from the "vision " point I now have subjected myself to opportunities,options that have Variables... Not the norm, the Abnorm ...!!!! Looking at it from the abnormal... you really don't need to worry about the remembering part, because anything is possible ... Makes pliable deduction and reasoning open to experimentation..!  Thanks...

Sadly, its not that easy to think out of the box. We need a eureka moment for that.

[Myr]

On 10/16/2017 at 2:48 AM, Solus Magus said:

For me, the hardest kind of characters to portray in a novel/story are those genius-level kind of people

That's easy... make them appear as if they know more... but for the love all that is holy... don't write all that they know.  If you imply... the reader fills in the genius for themselves.. if you write it out explicitly, then the character is limited to what you know... and you run the risk of someone in your audience knowing more than you on the topic and you not being correct.

 

I've had some really fascinating conversations in my time with people where, as a guy with a BS, and two Masters of Science degrees, I was the least educated person at the table.  Most of the really smart people I've met are not the least bit like Sheldon from Big Bang Theory.  Even when I was talking to 3 of the people responsible for voting Pluto out of the planet category.  (And boy are they defensive about that. lol).  Normal people for the most part... except for the whole demonstration of orbital mechanics and launching a rocket on  a series of paper napkins. 

Any way. 

 

[Solus Magus]

4 hours ago, Myr said:

That's easy... make them appear as if they know more... but for the love all that is holy... don't write all that they know.  If you imply... the reader fills in the genius for themselves.. if you write it out explicitly, then the character is limited to what you know... and you run the risk of someone in your audience knowing more than you on the topic and you not being correct.

 

I've had some really fascinating conversations in my time with people where, as a guy with a BS, and two Masters of Science degrees, I was the least educated person at the table.  Most of the really smart people I've met are not the least bit like Sheldon from Big Bang Theory.  Even when I was talking to 3 of the people responsible for voting Pluto out of the planet category.  (And boy are they defensive about that. lol).  Normal people for the most part... except for the whole demonstration of orbital mechanics and launching a rocket on  a series of paper napkins. 

Any way. 

 

This is one of those moments that a genius would sass the sass out of me.