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ProWritingAid: Perfect. Thank you. Thank you. So we've got people coming in already. So that's a good sign.

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ProWritingAid: Perfect! Hi, everybody!

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ProWritingAid: While you're waiting for us to get started if you can just

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ProWritingAid: pop your name and location in the chat.

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ProWritingAid: Thank you all for joining me today.

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ProWritingAid: Okay, let's have a look where people are from. I've got Doc from Kansas.

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ProWritingAid: I've got Kristen from Michigan.

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ProWritingAid: Reni from Berlin. I went to Berlin last year. It was lovely.

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ProWritingAid: Okay, we've got Zeta from Panama, Kristen from Denver.

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ProWritingAid: Julian from Ontario.

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ProWritingAid: Our terms with Doc. That's cool. People from Australia

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ProWritingAid: so many people joining me tonight. Well, I say, tonight is tonight for me. It's 11 pm. Feel free to let me know what time it is where you are. So I can

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ProWritingAid: see what's what's going on. Okay, I've got 6 pm. For Kirsten. 4 pm. Lou. Nice one awesome. Alright. It looks like. It's a nice group of people joining me today. So unfortunately, our speaker, Kyle, couldn't be with us tonight. So instead, we've decided to put on a little. Write in session for you. But I'm sure you'll enjoy creating a fantasy character with me.

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ProWritingAid: Okay, so first, before we get started. Let's just go over some housekeeping items same as usual. So how to access your replays. So we are going to record this session. So obviously, if you don't want to share anything in the chat, and you don't want me to read it out during this session. Then obviously don't share it with us, but you can send it to us if you want

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ProWritingAid: but you can access your replays for this and all the other sessions on our fantasy writers week hub, and then the replays will be added to them once they're done processing by zoom, so this time can vary we usually get them on pretty quickly earlier in the day, and then these later ones might not be on until the next day, so don't panic. They will be on there and then, if you don't see them

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ProWritingAid: after a couple of days you could always let us know, and then the replays will be available in the providing a community page for all members to view. By May third.

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ProWritingAid: I'll drop a link to the community in a moment. So premium day details. So Monday to Thursday, sessions are free for everyone to attend, and then Friday sessions are limited to premium and premium pro users. Only you can upgrade if you're a free user, your account by Friday morning, and then we will send you an email on Friday morning. So if you're a premium or premium pro user. You'll get an email on Friday morning with instructions

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ProWritingAid: for attending the live sessions and viewing replays. So if you're worrying about not seeing them an email during the week. Don't worry. It will come through to you on Friday morning.

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ProWritingAid: I'm seeing just some questions in the chat about where where the we're in the hub of the recording session. So they are usually on the section at the bottom where you've got the schedule under each one you'll get a a replay box and you'll be able to grab the slides there as well, usually.

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ProWritingAid: Okay.

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ProWritingAid: So your offer for this week is 25% off yearly premium or premium pro so like, I said, if you wanted to upgrade to get access to the Friday sessions, then this is a great offer to make make use of, but also we've got some really good premium and premium pro features, including rephrase AI sparks and critique

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ProWritingAid: which is really helpful for fantasy writing. And then this offer ends on May tenth. So just be aware of that when you're considering, upgrading.

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ProWritingAid: and then, like I mentioned. If you want to keep talking about fancy writing or any writing in particular, to be honest we talk about all writing on our online writing community. And we're building up such a lovely group of people in there. I can already see people chatting in the in the chat, and everyone gets to know each other. So it's it's all really nice. So you can come and join our our community.

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ProWritingAid: And then that's the link there. But I will also share it in the chat in a moment. So you don't need to write that one down

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ProWritingAid: so remind us for this session interesting. So we don't really need to use the QA. Box, because I'm not gonna be doing a QA. This session is more interactive. So we'll I'll be answering questions throughout the session. Anyway. There isn't a speaker. It's just me. And then, if you would like to chat with others, obviously, and me use the chat so that's what I'm directing you to. Normally, I would direct you to the QA. Box for questions.

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ProWritingAid: but just feel free to throw things in the chat. If the chat moves fast and you do have a specific question you want me to answer, and it's gotten lost in the chat. Then you can feel free to throw it in the Q. And A. Box, and I'll be happy to answer that.

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ProWritingAid: and then I'll also share the links if I just grab those. Now.

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ProWritingAid: me do that before I forget, because I want to move on. And I've got

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ProWritingAid: right hopefully.

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ProWritingAid: That's everything. So that's the fantasy writers week Hub, and the event chat on our community that you can join, and and we can carry on chatting there.

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ProWritingAid: Awesome. Okay.

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ProWritingAid: So I will stop sharing that one

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ProWritingAid: and see what everyone's saying in the chat because I've missed a bunch of stuff.

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ProWritingAid: Happy late birthday to Doc.

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ProWritingAid: lovely. Okay, okay. I don't think I've missed any questions.

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ProWritingAid: See? People still were putting their times. That's awesome. Okay, Jackie, let me share my other screen now so that we can get going.

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ProWritingAid: There we go

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ProWritingAid: perfection. Okay, so crafting your fantasy character. So.

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ProWritingAid: Nope, there we go.

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ProWritingAid: just grabbing my screen up so that I can see what I want to talk to you guys about there we go. So today, we're going to be looking at what makes a great fancy character explore some examples and work through some prompts to craft our own fantasy characters. So before we move on, I'd like you to guys to, you know, start straight away getting interactive. I want to know what your favorite fantasy character is in the chat, and I will allow you to have more than one.

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ProWritingAid: so you know, feel free to throw as many of them into the chat as you like, and I will go through and read them, because I love to hear what everyone's favorite.

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ProWritingAid: So I've got Artemis, foul already from a Quinton.

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ProWritingAid: Sam Gamji.

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ProWritingAid: John Snow

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ProWritingAid: dark playing Owen

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ProWritingAid: Tyrion. Yeah, lovely Aragon. I love Aragon

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ProWritingAid: Harry Dresden. I've heard of the Dresden files. I think they're supposed to be pretty good.

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ProWritingAid: Jamie Fraser from outlander. Nice

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ProWritingAid: handle in the saw movies. Yeah. Yeah.

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ProWritingAid: Merlin, yeah. Merlin's classic.

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ProWritingAid: Let's see hiccup and toothless from how to train your dragons. I love dragons. That's amazing. Okay, you can keep posting them in there if you like. I'm gonna move on to the next slide. So

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ProWritingAid: I don't know if I said this at the beginning. But hi! I'm Sarah. So I work at parity, and I also write in a variety of genres, including fantasy, romance, and crime. I started writing fantasy from a young age, and I love getting lost in fantasy worlds and

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ProWritingAid: daydreaming about all of the things that could exist. I was obsessed with vampires during my teenage years, and I'll got to be honest. I think I started watching vampire diaries again, for, like the sixth time, early a couple of days ago. So any kind of fantasy elements in in stories, I just love them.

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ProWritingAid: Oh, we got Lucifer from Lucifer. I love Lucifer so. Yeah, I'm getting distracted by the chat now. Awesome. So.

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ProWritingAid: We'll be crafting our own fantasy characters in a moment. But first let's have a look at how to create memorable fantasy characters that your readers will love

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ProWritingAid: so

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ProWritingAid: fantasy. Books are where readers go to escape from reality and usually end up in a completely unrecognizable world. So I think, in a previous session that I just hosted with Christina. Someone asked the question of What's the difference between fantasy and magical realism and magical realism is based on our world, but having fantastical elements in it, and then fantasy generally focuses on creating your own world. So world building is a big part of it.

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ProWritingAid: However.

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ProWritingAid: characters are so important for fantasy stories. The characters act like the window into that world, and readers experience the fantasy world through them. Right? So we love a character that we can sit with, we can root for. And we follow through the journey we learn about that world as they're learning, and it's it's

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ProWritingAid: such a great experience. As a reader, which is why you should have fun with it as a writer. So it's crucial to create a character your readers gonna wanna stick with from the moment they open the book to the moment they read the end. Or is it? You know? There's a lot of fantasy series out there. But you know it depends on whether or not you want to make a stand alone, or if you want to make a series.

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ProWritingAid: Oh, I just did. I miss a question. Yellow Med. You might have to profit in the QA. I'm already missing stuff. If you profit in the QA. I'll grab it in a second. Okay, so what do we need to create a character that will keep our readers spellbound. So I focus on 3 things which are complexity.

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ProWritingAid: humanity, or inhumanity, you might be creating creatures that are completely inhuman, and their capacity to reflect universal truths or themes. So there's still those elements there. So fantasy characters in stories tend to go on such epic journeys.

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ProWritingAid: Some follow tails of destiny, some wage wars to save their world, and some learn that they're even more powerful than they ever imagined.

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ProWritingAid: Despite all this, they remain relatable, so their flaws and motivations echo our own, which is what keeps your reader rooting for them along the journey. If I can't relate to a character I don't know about you, but I really struggled to follow them through all of the epicness that you know, someone's taken the time and effort to write.

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ProWritingAid: But that's that's obviously something that I know that a lot of readers will feel. So it's definitely something we need to focus on when we're coming up with crafting characters

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ProWritingAid: Now, we've heard some examples from you in the chat. I'm still seeing examples. I'm seeing Cassia from Akita.

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ProWritingAid: Says Rory, from Lucifer, TV show. Oh, I think Rory might not be at the point where I'm at Curly from good almonds. Oh, good shot! I love Curly

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ProWritingAid: anyway. So we've heard all of these examples of the chat, and now we're going to quickly check out some examples and think about how they can help us in crafting our characters.

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ProWritingAid: So first we've got Lucy from the chronicles of Narnia. So she's got a sense of wonder and curiosity that a lot of us likely possess. We all want to explore the new world of a novel. See what it's about. And she wanted to explore the world of Narnia. If she didn't have that sense of wonder, she might not have gone through the wardrobe into Narnia. So through Lucy's growth we learn self discovery and how to be resilient.

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ProWritingAid: so we might not be facing dwarves, talking wolves or white witches. I don't know. You might be in your in your life if you if you do come across a talking wolf, then let me know I'm I'm very interested. But resilience and being confident in our ability to face whatever challenges do come to us in our day to day. Life is a great lesson to learn from a book.

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ProWritingAid: I think Danny, in one of the Danny Abernathy in one of the earlier sessions, was also talking about learning lessons from books. So this is highly relevant.

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ProWritingAid: So next we've got Jamie Lannister.

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ProWritingAid: So he's one of my favorite characters from game of Thrones series. My. The reason for that is because his character development is so complex and yet authentic. You feel like every single step, while it's gradual. His change is realistic. It's it's not too much too soon. It's not completely out of what you expect. It just feels like it's it's the right thing. And and I think that's such an undervalued

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ProWritingAid: element of character. Development is is making sure that it feels realistic for the character and authentic for what they would go through. So he goes from arrogant villain type, character to a reluctant hero figure, and we see the humanity in him, and it shows how change can lead to redemption.

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ProWritingAid: And then, finally, we have Gandalf from Lord of the Rings.

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ProWritingAid: So Gandalf plays more of a mentor role in this story. But I can guarantee you. I know many fans who will tell you that they love him more than some of the other characters. I mean. I've got a soft spot for Aragorn. But that's another story. So Gandalf plays.

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ProWritingAid: plays on his strengths of wisdom, strength, and charm.

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ProWritingAid: So we see his personality. Traits come out quite strongly. We also see how selfless he is when he confronts the bullrog, literally standing up to evil to save others and save the people that you know he knows what needs to be done, and that's always a great thing for a mental character. So

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ProWritingAid: now we know what we want. Let's have some fun and get to crafting our character. So we've got some prompts. I'm just gonna have a quick look at the chat, though. Just see.

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ProWritingAid: did my love for vampires come from twilight, or any other vampire film, or show very good question. I love twilight vampire diaries. There was a show in the Uk called being human. They did a a Uk, a Us. Version, but I didn't watch that one. But I really like the Uk version and there was true blood as well. But yeah, so a lot of different vampire origins and and things.

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ProWritingAid: no, I love that. There's lots of being human. Yeah, being human. It was. It's old now. But like, yeah, I really liked being human. Uk and Aidan Turner. Aidan Turner was good awesome. I'm not sure if I missed any other questions in the chat. Is everyone ready to get going?

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ProWritingAid: Do you think that everyone's ready to get going with with creating a character? I'm I think I'm ready to get going. I mean, I've got a notebook and and a pen that I'm going to be writing with. You can write with your laptop. If you want

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ProWritingAid: Awesome. Okay, let's do this, then. So

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ProWritingAid: first prompt, I'm gonna move this screen out of the way so that I can see my timer. So prop one, we're going to introduce your fancy character in 50 words or less. So we're starting off really quick. You'll only have 5 min to do this, but it's designed to get you warmed up thinking about what character you want to work on. If you want to work on a new character. I'm working on a new character. I'm gonna try and pluck ideas out of

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ProWritingAid: thinner, or if you've got an idea for a character that you've come up with maybe a while ago, and you just haven't.

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ProWritingAid: Haven't fleshed them out yet. Then obviously, you can work on that in this session that's completely up to you. So if you guys are already, I will hit play and we will start writing for 5 min.

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ProWritingAid: Okay, Dokey, so that is 5 min over. No, Jennifer, was it not long enough? I I I'll be honest with you. I struggled until about. We had like about a minute and a half left, and then all of a sudden, everything just came out. So I don't know if anyone else is. Oh, you wrote too much. Okay. Well, you know, at least there's that I'm sorry that made you jump Deborah 50. So we have 55 words

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ProWritingAid: from Joseph, but it was Handron 57 from Nikki, Janet Janice, or, Yes, went over the 50 words.

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ProWritingAid: Katharina's already sharing. Some. Yeah. Feel free to share some. If you've if you've typed them, and you want to share them.

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ProWritingAid: 50 is impossible. That was brilliant.

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ProWritingAid: yes, but it is hard to describe a character in in 51 words. I actually don't know how many words I wrote. So let me count. Give me 2 s. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 1011, 1230.

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ProWritingAid: Yeah, I think I got under 50. But then I like, I say, I didn't start writing until towards the end. Sorry. Let's see. We've got. Let's start with Cassarena. So got Adrian Schmidt, a 24 year old undercover octave for the hunters

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ProWritingAid: sports a rugged designer, stubble beard, and maintains a muscular, athletic build. I love that gone so much

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ProWritingAid: description. Already driven by twisted Lawton, deep-seated jealousy, Adrian's charm masks a manipulative personality and he grapples with internal conflicts between genuine affection and destructive goals. That sounds amazing. I would read more about him. I'm glad to hear that we'll we'll be developing him over the next half an hour. Let's see what else

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ProWritingAid: you don't have to, of course. Oh, Zita! Nina is both wary and naive. She wants to find her origins and grow in her powers to help others. Well, her powers are deemed socially dangerous. She wants genuine connection and love while she must hide. She's a half blood, a constant fight to prove her worth, despite societal stigma. That's amazing. Oh, my gosh! You guys are sharing loads now.

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ProWritingAid: Can't catch up with all of the chat. Oh, let's look at Vicky's a man whose world was shattered twice over, and he didn't realize it until a group of heroes opened his eyes to the whispered deceptions and total manipulations he allowed to rule his life. This time he'll be a villain no longer. This time he'll shatter the world apart for true justice, because sometimes healing is painful. Love it

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ProWritingAid: do feel like you can keep adding them, if you want I believe we share the chat, but I'm not sure. I'll have to check with Michelle either way. I am going to share a link

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ProWritingAid: to our community again at some point, and I will start a thread in there first to all share out our stuff. I'll just read out this one from Leah. I think it is. Halley is a hybrid human. Oh, why have I attempted to read this? I can't read that word. I want to say nerd, but doesn't know it.

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ProWritingAid: She's introduced to her birth father, who calls her on a quest to find the source of an elusive pearl. But her uncle has sinister plans that could destroy the secret world of her mythical family. That sounds amazing.

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ProWritingAid: Okay, dokey. So it sounds like everyone made some good progress on that first prompt. So if you guys are ready, we can start with prompt 2 while we're going to take another. Look into them, and you'll find that with prompt 2 you've started already in prompt one. Let me pause that and move on to prompt 2. There we go.

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ProWritingAid: so prompt. 2. We are going to describe what your character looks like, and so like. I said, some people have already started what they're like describing what their character looks like. If you haven't, then this is the time to do it.

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ProWritingAid: So consider what clothes they wear, what their body shape might be. Think about the finer details, like facial features or hair color. And then don't forget to add any additional unique elements, like scars, tattoos, or any weapons they might carry. That was something that I thought was quite relevant for fantasy writing. We do get a lot of characters that like to carry weapons.

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ProWritingAid: and then, if you finish before the time's up, then you can also add details about their body, language, mannerisms, personality, traits, anything else like that. We've got 7 min for this one

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ProWritingAid: and then one of the things that I'm gonna probably do is work with bullet points. So if you want to work with bullet points or full sentences that's completely up to you again. And then, if you guys are already, we will start with prompt to. And we're gonna go for 7 min this time.

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ProWritingAid: Okay, okay, hopefully, I didn't make anybody jump with

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ProWritingAid: that. But we have just gone over the 7 min, Mark.

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ProWritingAid: I will let you guys finish off the sentence that you're writing, if you want, because I also want to finish off the sentence that I was writing. So give me 2 s.

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ProWritingAid: here we go. Awesome. Okay. I hope that was helpful to you guys who took

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ProWritingAid: We're all good, perfect thanks, Deborah. Nice one. So we've got people already sharing the details. That's great. Tara, that was great for you. Perfect. That was fun Alicia. Nice one.

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ProWritingAid: Okay, we've already got loads coming through. I've got

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ProWritingAid: so ready. Okay, let's have a look at Vanessas as an android. They have bald head, silver skin, black eyes, they're capable of changing their height, so I've just missed it. Where's it gone by extending their limbs once they become human. They will turn into a young woman with long brown hair, olive skin, and brown eyes. She wears a long orange dress with golden highlights. I love that. I love an android. Yeah, I love a robot.

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ProWritingAid: Especially in in like the fancy or speculative fiction. Always good.

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ProWritingAid: Let's see if I can. Oh, Louisa, your one has grabbed me because of the name Flint and I wrote a story about a guy called Flint once. That was nice so Flint is tall, towering over most men.

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ProWritingAid: He's lean and muscular, sort of like Hugh Jackman love it because he's a stonemason perfect. He's in his late thirties, with a bit of silver peffering his almost black shoulder length, hair. His eyes are like shards of glacier ice, a blue that shifts from almost white to midnight blue, depending on his mood. You've got an amazing writing style. I love this.

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ProWritingAid: He dresses simply in the clothing of a medieval farmer or hunter depending on the task, and he does have an old uniform buried deep in his trunk, a relic of the days he refuses to remember. He has an assortment of scars from his battle days, a few from hunting, and one from a thoughtless

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ProWritingAid: farming accent. Remember, do not carry battle ax while throwing, hey? I love that little. Add in, oh, I think this is brilliant. You should definitely keep writing about Flint. I want to hear all about him. I think that's amazing.

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ProWritingAid: data dresses. More, you've got more. Yours is more of a story, and that's how you started from front one. That's cool. That's fair. If that's that's the way it's going. That's the way it's gone. Also, I recognize you from the writing sprints, the 24. I think it's the same person, the 24 writing sprints that I also took part in. Let's see.

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ProWritingAid: Joseph. Maelstrom, I think I'm pronouncing that right stands at 6 foot 8, clothed in iron armor. His gauntlets are spiked at the knuckles. What lies beneath is a mystery. Love it! He wears a billowing cap of shadows and a cow covering his face, his eyes remain ever present, glowing with fire. I love that so much so cool. You can keep sharing so people can get.

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ProWritingAid: Some inspiration if you haven't managed to come up with some ideas. I mean, I'm getting inspiration. I didn't mention mine last time, but mine is a story. It's Jim who is a dragon rider who wants to amass a great fortune after discovering a treasure map that was hidden in the draw of his uncle's old writing desk. So I was just describing Jim.

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ProWritingAid: So let's see, yeah, we've got so many people sharing all of those

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ProWritingAid: brilliant. I want to make sure that we have time to do our other 2 prompts. We've got 2 more. So prompt. 3. If I move on to front. 3

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ProWritingAid: awesome. So prompt. 3. We are going to properly get into writing now, and I feel like people will just

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ProWritingAid: like, get into the flow. Hopefully, you'll get into the flow. We do have 10 min, so it's a bit longer. So we're going to write the back story for your character this time. So this this story should tell how your character got to where they are at the beginning of your novel.

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ProWritingAid: If you're writing a novel, you might be writing a short story either way at the beginning of the piece that you're going to be working on at some point if you want

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ProWritingAid: and then what were the defining moments of their life so far, so often when you're creating characters, you have to think of things like what their wounds are, what their motivations are, what are their flaws, and usually events in their past sort of go hand in hand with that. So if you think of their defining moments, then usually that will explain that kind of thing, and then also consider what their relationships are like as well. Because we also

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ProWritingAid: start with a family, maybe. Maybe not. And then you might, they might have friends or or enemies and things like that. So it's always good to include things like that in in the backstory. So if you guys are ready. I don't see any more adding to the chat. So I think I'll say that we're ready. We'll get going with 10 min of backstory writing.

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ProWritingAid: so that was another 10. That was 10 min that's just gone by.

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ProWritingAid: Just wrote a full page way too much to share. Yeah, I imagine there's probably gonna be a lot of a lot of people with that problem. I mean, I wrote.

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ProWritingAid: like 2 pages by hand. So I want to see if anyone does feel like sharing, though. We can go through a couple of them. Because I am conscious of time, and we do have one more prompt. That's also 10 min. So we may roll over a little bit.

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ProWritingAid: Okay, so let's go for Vanessa's again. So, after being created, the Android lived a couple of years with its Creator before being stolen by said Creator's son

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ProWritingAid: it tried to get back to its Creator, and while they were able to reunite briefly as Creator soon passed away. After that the Android worked for the Creator Sun. For many years its memories wiped. Eventually the android was able to find a way to preserve its memories, but it was for naught when the Creator Son developed more advanced androids, and through the android away. And it's last saw the android wish for a soul. Oh, I love that so much.

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ProWritingAid: Such a cool backstory. Okay, let's see if I can do another 10, my gosh.

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ProWritingAid: Lena's one is very long. And I think Lois's one is as well.

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ProWritingAid: Let's see, I'm just trying to we could.

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ProWritingAid: Katherina. It's not like you share. Oh, it is yours too long. Let's see

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ProWritingAid: Yellow Med, you don't want to write a hair, cause there's too much there is. Yeah, it's a lot. No! There we go, Katharina, yours is shared. Let's have a look at that one. So the hunters, at the age of

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ProWritingAid: 19, posing as a 16 year old, named Mateo.

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ProWritingAid: I'm not even gonna attempt to pronounce that surname, driven by a twisted sense of loyalty to the hunter's cause. Adrian's motivations are deeply colored by his envy of the familial love and support witnessed in others specifically in his target chase this Mv. Eventually twisted into a darker desire to destroy that happiness. I love it so much.

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ProWritingAid: Thank you, Jackie. Keep sharing, if you feel like it. I can see there's a lot more coming through. Karis has had a people write so fast. I just feel so slow whenever I do sprints

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ProWritingAid: to be fair, I mean I I wrote like 2 pages, but I I did struggle to get in. I feel like that. I feel like I struggle to get in in a writing sprint within the first like minute or 2, and then it all comes rushing out, and then I struggle to to sort of find a good stopping point. But there you go, so maybe you'll have to try these prompts on your own and then set longer timers. Maybe so let's have it. Oh, my gosh, there's so many coming through. So we've got. I've got like so many.

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ProWritingAid: I like that. So so there was a question in the Q. And a. So it says, what if you don't like to read or write stories with main characters who have dire back stories or dire histories. That's a very good question. It's

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ProWritingAid: probably best for another time, or we can answer it in the community because we are running out of time now. But I mean, it's it's your character. It's up to you. They could have a happy life. The point is, it needs to be things that lead them up to the point at the start of the story and make them who they are. So they could be a really happy go, lucky person. And you're thinking, well, the inciting incident could be something really harrowing

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ProWritingAid: you know, it's there's it's all down to you. It's it's your creativity. So let's quickly. If I pause that move on to prompt 4. So we are gonna run over time. Hopefully, you guys can stick around for the entire session. If not, we'll just keep going. And obviously you can re-watch and do this as many times as you like.

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ProWritingAid: So this time for prompt 4, we're going to let your character speak.

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ProWritingAid: So this time we're going to write a conversation between your character and another figure from your story, or from their backstory, so you can just try and pluck somebody out of there, or

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ProWritingAid: just think of like, I don't know if they were talking to their parents, or a relative or something. It doesn't have to be really relevant to the story. But what we're going to do is aim to reveal character, dynamics, motivation, and tension through their dialogue, and we can also show their personality. And you can add some description in there as well if you want to.

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ProWritingAid: So let's just have fun. Last 10 min, sprint, and let your imagination flow through the characters. Words so if you guys are already, I will get going.

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ProWritingAid: Hopefully, you guys got a lot out of that I wrote several parts of my conversation. I can see some people have been sharing their conversation in the conversations in the chat already.

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ProWritingAid: I'm just having a look now to see if there's anything that I can read out. It looks like there's quite a lot I might not get to it. Thank you. Linda, yeah, this was, this has been great. I mean, I've written pages and pages of this

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ProWritingAid: character design so far. And and I'm getting to know my new character, Jim. That is a a working name. He might not be called Jim, but I could come up with at the time. I I love seeing all of your conversations. I might not have a chance to read them right now. But I'm just having a look now, it looks like people are still sticking around.

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ProWritingAid: basically got. So Kristen said, this has basically gotten me going on my new book. That's perfect. I'm glad to hear it.

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ProWritingAid: okay, let's see, I'm just seeing if there is anything that I can.

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ProWritingAid: Last right we tried, son. They caught us before. They caught us before we got 5 miles outside of town. They dragged her, kicking and screaming, to a father. Then they beat me and left me for death more than 50 miles south of the border. When I awoke I went in search of her, but it was too late. She was gone. They told me she died in childbirth. I've mourned all these years, but now I have reason to rejoice my son is alive. Oh, that's a nice one. I like that. That's awesome. Thank you, lass.

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ProWritingAid: I don't know if I've got any time to read out anymore. But okay, let me stop sharing my screen, because that's all I had left, and then I can also see so I hope that was helpful for everybody who got involved.

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ProWritingAid: people type slow, I mean. I've been writing like my hand is cramping a little bit, but my handwriting is rubbish, so whether I'll actually be able to read any of this is a whole other story. So I'm still seeing people tasting Lady Nei said this help help me work on part of the story. Thank you.

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ProWritingAid: brilliant. It's nice to hear that you guys managed to get something out of this. Like, I say, this was just an impromptu type of thing. We've got a lot of world building sessions on this week, because obviously, fantasy is a lot about world building. But I thought it was good to get some ideas and and get some work on a fantasy character, because characters are one of my

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ProWritingAid: favorite elements of story writing. So, thank you for joining me. I'm just gonna yeah, pop a little

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ProWritingAid: pop the links into the chat so that you guys can see you can get onto the hub, which is where you can get all the offers for upgrading. Also, there's the live event chat. What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna make a

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ProWritingAid: I'm going to start a thread in the live live events, chat space on our community.

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ProWritingAid: website, which obviously, if you click on the link in the chat, now then you will be able to join, and then if you find my thread, then you can add your character details to that, and then we can all share how we got on. And and look at any kind of feedback to each other. I mean, I'm gonna be looking through and and using you guys as inspiration, because I'm gonna have to reread all of this chat has just been so

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ProWritingAid: so helpful to see how everybody, how how your minds work. It's just amazing to see that.

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ProWritingAid: so I think I think this is probably I would stay later, but it is already 10 past midnight here, and I need to go to bed, so like. I say, I will happily join you in the community, though. And then, if you feel like sharing please do join us. You can also email them. And I'll be, I'll be happy to read them if you want to. Email. And I work. I work in the customer support

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ProWritingAid: team. So I get to see all of the emails and stuff. So thank you. Lauren, yeah, I'm gonna go get some sleep now.

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ProWritingAid: So yeah. Thank you for joining us. And hopefully, I will see you guys, I am hosting the networking events. This week as well. So another couple of late nights for me. But it means I get to speak, actually, speak to you guys and hear your lovely voices so and obviously come and join us for the other sessions that we've got this week, or watch the replays on the hub.

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ProWritingAid: I hope you guys have a good rest of your day, and I will see you all again soon.

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ProWritingAid: Bye, for now.