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How do you prefer to use the assigned character?

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Originally posted by NeilWhitfield NeilWhitfield wrote:

Here is a question, kinda related: I got 'A Foreman' as my character brief. I've decided to have a serial killer called ' Jarrod A. Foreman' because it's just where my story has landed. Having a victim as a foreman felt throwaway.

Do you think I'll get away with it for 'creative solution' points?

Or do i need to crowbar the actual job in?

I think one of the points of the strange prompts is to prevent people from writing stories in advance and then just tweaking them to 'fit' the prompts. It's one of the few ways they have of making sure the participants really create their stories inside of eight days.

So my test is generally: Could my use of the prompt make it look like I shoehorned it into an existing story? If the answer is yes, I go deeper with the prompt.
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I've never had them as the protagonist. When I did it last year, I'm R1 and R3 they were the romantic partner of the protagonist and in R2 they were a companion. For this one, mine is part villain/part substantial reason for plot but only appears in person at the start.
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Originally posted by JaySun JaySun wrote:

Most definitely won't work. The point is that you need to have a character with that job or at least have some association with the job. It's not suppose to be easy. I got a recycler... Trust me it takes quite a bit of thinking lol

Or not. As I said above my highest scoring short story entries don't have the prompt character physically appear and in one case they're never named at all. In that case almost all the reader knows is the quality required by the prompt (disabled.) 0
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