I’m writing a story about a biracial superhero. He’s in his 20s, and his dad is a Black billionaire. His mom is Japanese, and she comes from a wealthy family. I don’t want to give too much away, but there is something about his family’s history that resurfaces, and it connects to his powers. He is basically trying to find out what it is. My friend says the story is stupid and no one would want to read it.

  • Paragone@piefed.socialEnglish
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    10 hours ago

    If you want to write a story, then it is in working-out the meanings that you will earn what your unconscious-mind wants to earn.

    Same with people wanting to earn a pilot’s license, or climbing a mountain, or doing SCUBA.

    If some of your meaning is hidden in that kind of work, then you aren’t going to earn that part of your meaning by putting it on a shelf, because somebody-else deemed it unimportant.

    I’m recommending that you read & understand 5+ books, though, as they dismantle story the technology so that you can more-competently work out your story-meanings:

    https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-anatomy-of-genres is the most important: it is on the 14 genres that the West has landed on, & the dimension-of-human-meaning that each genre works-on.

    Horror works-on one’s unconscious-mind’s understanding of death, & its relationship with it.

    Which may explain Grimm’s, tbh.

    Detective is intellect.

    etc.

    The 14 happen in a particular sequence because that’s the sequence in-which each mind-development stands on the previous-ones.

    https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/presenting-to-win-updated-and-expanded-edition-2 may seem a strange recommendation, but understanding the 12 TYPES of information-presenting, will help crack some story-problems.

    Need a character to fail to communicate something?

    Pick the correct for your story wrong-method for them to use, if you see what I man.

    https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-anatomy-of-story is the other-half of Truby’s work. The 22 steps in story, & why each.

    https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-story-grid is THE book on editing. There is no book that tops that.

    https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Framed+Ink is THE book for getting visual communication working in comics & visual-novels.

    Now I discover that there are multiple books in the series ( I got the original, long ago ).

    Dig in, earn what your unconscious-mind is trying to earn, grow your meaning, & clobber your difficulties/obstacles.

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