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[kittydesade]

die Mutter, die Mutti, die Mama - mother
die Tochter - daughter
die Schwester - sister
die Tante - aunt
Die Kusine - cousin
die Nichte - niece
die Großmutter, die Oma - grandmother

der Vater, der Vati, der Papa - father
der Sohn - son
der Bruder - brother
der Onkel - uncle
der Vetter - cousin
der Neffe - nephew
der Großvater - grandfather


A small bit of vocab today to keep in the habit and because I still need to finish the questions from the reading earlier. And then tomorrow, a big bit of vocab and then grammar, finally. And then I'll figure out something.

I also realized that I forgot to put up a worldbuilding exercise last week. Oops. Have two!

3. Create your antagonist characters
As with your protagonist, your antagonist(s) can tell you a lot about the world you're making. Write a paragraph about your antagonist.




4. Study your conflict
There's an old idea that the core plot of most works can be narrowed down to person vs person, person vs outside world, or person vs self. It's true. At the very least, it's true that the core conflict in a story can usually be boiled down to A vs B.

Write down your A vs B at the top of a page. This is your focus of your novel, your core conflict, what drives the action and the plot. Han, Luke, and Leia vs the Empire. The Fellowship of the Ring vs Sauron and his minions. Malcolm Reynolds vs everyone else in the gorram universe. Now go down the page and write down some basic questions, and you already have the who and the what, hopefully, but if you haven't, write that down as well. If it's character vs an outside force, what is the outside force? When: Is this story taking place over a few days or over several years? How is the conflict manifested, subtly in many smaller conflicts or blatantly? Where do the conflicts manifest? And if your scope is small, this will be a very easy question. If your scope is larger, you'll need to describe some locales, cities, towns, countrysides. A sentence or two will do for each.

At the bottom of the page, write a paragraph of up to seven sentences describing the why. Why is this conflict happening? What brought these things into conflict? Is it contrariness, is it an aspect of the protagonist character that forces conflict, is the protagonist seeking it out or did conflict drag the protagonist out of bed kicking and screaming? This all will go into summary information.

That second one can have an example put up for it if anyone wants; actually, both of those can. Are people enjoying these/finding them useful? I hope I hope. :)