{"id":18608,"date":"2024-07-22T06:37:04","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T06:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/twist-tales.com\/?p=18608"},"modified":"2025-02-28T07:33:18","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T07:33:18","slug":"5-tips-on-writing-with-joshua-fernandez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/twist-tales.com\/de\/5-tips-on-writing-with-joshua-fernandez\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Tips on Writing: With Joshua Fernandez"},"content":{"rendered":"
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5 Tips on Writing: With Joshua Fernandez<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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I’m Joshua and I’ve worked on several projects involving writing including videos, video games, and other works of interactive fiction. I have had a hand in working on lore, dialogue, narration, journal entries, and other lore-related narrative pieces<\/span><\/p>

I just like multimedia in general, so writing serious stories with captivating characters is nice but so is making memes and skits. I plan on making more videos and games later on and hell, maybe throw in an album or mixtape in there to spice things up a bit.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Hooking Your Audience<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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I have two in mind. The first tip is show, don’t tell.<\/b> Actions speak louder than words and paintings can tell a story, so plan actions that prompt the story to move or prompt the main characters to spring into action from some conflict.<\/span><\/p>

Take Kid Buu from Dragon Ball Z. He’s a pink monster that can’t talk yet he defeats the main characters and accomplishes his goal of destroying Earth. He’s labeled as evil incarnate and though side characters ramble about his immense power, what cemented him as such for the viewer is the numerous deplorable actions, like <\/span>w<\/b>hen he went to heaven to fight people he already killed prior because he could.<\/i><\/b> As a kid, I found this horrifying, but as an adult, I find it absurdly hilarious.<\/span><\/p>

That is one of many examples of hooking consumers. There are too many routes to use to keep consumers enticed, but a few examples include:<\/span><\/p>

  1. Traumatic events (Spider-Man dying in the Ultimate Spider-Man comic run)<\/span><\/li>
  2. Introducing new characters (Introducing Toph as a powerful earth bender in Avatar the Last Airbender)<\/span><\/li>
  3. Putting established characters in situations outside their element (Put Beast Boy, a superhero that can transform into any animal and is a known vegetarian, into a fast food job at a burger chain<\/span><\/li>
  4. Putting established characters in scenarios that reveal an unknown side to them (Bakugo cooking food and playing drums with finesse in My Hero Academia instead of him shouting about killing villains and blowing up his surroundings)<\/span><\/li>
  5. Having characters act specific gestures before a conflict (IP Man rolling up his sleeves before fighting or BumbleBee from Transformers putting on his battle mask)<\/span><\/li><\/ol>

    The second tip is if you’re writing dialogue, make it critical and enhance the lore.<\/b> Character exposition can be powerful when done correctly and is a balancing act. The best times to do it are when major plot points need elaboration or to show a character\u2019s personality.<\/span><\/p>

    Take the John Wick franchise for example. The main mafia boss Viggo, who runs his crime syndicate, gets shaken to his core when he hears John’s dog has been killed. Later on, he tells his son, Iosef, that John is a monstrously dangerous assassin that single-handedly crippled every other mob in the city and can use everyday items like a pencil to kill a squad of men easily. The stage is now set and had Viggo not talked to his son, we wouldn’t have known this information, making it more valuable.<\/span><\/p>

    You don’t need a whole speech to hook readers. Other times, a single word or phrase is all it takes to hook consumers. In Game of Thrones season 6, Hodor sacrifices himself by holding a door while commanded to so the other characters can escape from a horde of white walkers. What was haunting about his death was that the reason Hodor got his name was due to a seizure he suffered as a kid.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

    He lay on the ground shouting hold the door, eventually his mind devolved to saying Hodor, an abbreviated version. Several layers of context make this event much more heartbreaking, but the main thing is seeing the sacrifice and his last words add to the tension.<\/span><\/p>

    With good lore behind the dialogue, whether revealing or establishing something, it should have some payoff to look forward to.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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    Decide whether you want to plan what happens at the end of a narrative or be spontaneous, but have the characters take action either way.<\/b> When I have an idea for a story and want to plan the structure, I draft important events in order and fill out details in between to flesh out the story.<\/span><\/p>

    I wrote the story for a game called Darkest Abyss and the key events were the main character going home, lucid dreaming, revisiting memories during this dream, and waking up with a new perspective on life for better or worse. Everything in between was open to experimentation and throwing ideas against the wall until I decided what I wanted to happen, looked it over, revised it, and repeated the process until my story was complete.<\/span><\/p>

    Disney has a great chart and structure they use in all their movies. It goes like this:<\/span><\/p>