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Who is the main character of "Aladdin"?

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[quote="APK"][quote]"One example that immediately comes to mind is Sailor Moon. Out of five young women, only one gets true love at the end of the story. The other four? Far as I can tell, their only duty is to act as the personal protectors of the spoiled brat I mentioned. This is hardly fair to the readers who identify themselves with the other characters of the story."[/quote]

:lol: I never really liked Serena/Usagi either. I liked the show in general and the other characters  :lol:

[quote]"Colin (surname unknown) is a blonde teenage boy who enjoys the skateboard and cannot stand Shakespeare. One particularily hot day, he discovers that there is absolutely nothing for him to do, so he caves to the nagging of his parents and does an online job-search. Shortly after that, he falls asleep and, via the high-tech internet system, accidentally swaps his brain with the neural programming of a robot halfway across the planet." [/quote]

That last sentence threw me off a bit  :lol: I see what you mean with the average/interesting thing.

[quote]"While on vacation on a Caribbean island, he boredly wanders away from a large celebration and is kidnapped by pirates."[/quote]

Oh, how I wish that would happen to me!  :lol: And you can all just guess who the pirate would be  :wink:

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"By the way, if you have an idea of what you want your character to be, do yourself a favor and don't write a character sheet. Don't try to describe your character's personality, likes, dislikes, skills, etc. in minute detail before you start. As your character moves through the story, it will be essential at certain points to reveal certain things, and then you make sure that you only include what you need to."[/quote]

I somewhat understand what you mean, but at the same time, I just thought of how authors like JK Rowling claimed to have outlined in detail before writing their books. I thought this was brilliant and could be really useful, since they would have no problem getting stuck in certain places. Then again, if any of you Harry Potter fans have read the 6th book and disliked it (not because of the ending but all the stuff in betwen) then maybe (like me) you have come to think that her outlining worked out great until the 6th book.

Uh...I don't know how to explain well but I felt that the 6th book was just so different from her style for the other books. I don't mean in vocabulary, since everyone seems to think the vocabulary has gotten complicated in the 6th book. I meant that the Gin/Har thing was so rushed, pretty flimsy, underdeveloped and kind of cheesy. Not that I dislike the pairing itself. And don't even get me started on how nothing happened with the plot except shippy fluffness and snogging sessions.  :roll:

If you're not an HP reader, then I'm sorry for confusing you with all of that  :lol:

[quote]"This is probably a more in-depth lecture than you were really after, but hopefully it was helpful somehow."[/quote]

Oh, don't worry. I appreciate all the help.  :)  Besides, I've made many long posts before so I don't mind reading long posts.

Thanks for all your help, guys.  :) I was thinking of outlining for a story that was in my head for a while but I think I'll just outline some of the universe and plot instead of the characters. I've done short stories before but I want to learn how to write more than short stories.[/quote]

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