(Disclaimer: Cheesy (or corny, sappy, flowery, melodramatic, pretentious, try-hard) work may vary with the reader. A ten-year-old might enjoy the attack names screamed out by characters as they fight in a graphic novel. An older teen may not. Boys (might) cringe at one of those soap opera-style love scenes, but his mom might be moved to tears. A hero taking a bullet for a loved one could be powerful to one audience, while another says “what an idiot.” It all depends on your target audience. If someone else other than whom you originally had in mind comes along and reads your work, and disses it for being too cheesy in THEIR opinion, acknowledge their opinion graciously, and then take it with a grain of salt.
Also, comments would be useful for this blog to progress.)
Tips (I’ll be posting new tips under each heading every so-often)...
1) Happy scenes that make you puke.
2) To name the attack, or not to name the attack?
3) Boot-worthy dialogue
4) Crap fights
5) Love scenes that inspire hate
6) When Heroes turn into Half-wits
7) When Antagonists turn into Addle-pates
8) (More to come)
1 comment:
That's some good points, Rif-Raf. Way to go! :D
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