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04-23-2006, 04:44 PM
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Ink Slinger
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Les Etats-Unis
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Showing Vanity?
Whats a good way to show vanity in a character through actions? What kind of things would you expect a vain person to do? I want to show my character is vain,to avoid telling the reader he is vain...any Ideas?
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04-23-2006, 04:52 PM
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Scribe
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Vienna, VA
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I did this with one of my female characters about a year ago. She was really rich, spoiled, blonde, beautiful, stuff like that. Basically, make him make comments about how other people are inferior, especially his family. Make him talk about how everything bad that happens to him is everyone else's fault. Stuff like that. Does that help?
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04-23-2006, 04:54 PM
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Profound Writer
Join Date: Jul 2005
Gender: Male
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Often, telling the person's popular does the trick.
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04-23-2006, 04:55 PM
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Ink Slinger
Join Date: Sep 2004
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some what  its set in the 1800's (most of my stories are ><) so I really have to work my way around my words...But I really need him to appear very vain to fit the story...thanks a bunch 
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04-23-2006, 04:56 PM
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Ink Slinger
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Anchorage, Alaska
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maybe have them always readjusting their clothes, like they're ridiculously worried about how they look - constantly smoothing down their hair, checking themselves in a mirror, etc.
I know what story this is don't I?
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04-23-2006, 04:58 PM
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Ink Slinger
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Les Etats-Unis
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yeah you do. lol.
and I just remembered, my ex was so vain....I'll confiscate some of his habits.
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04-24-2006, 09:16 AM
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Profound Writer
Join Date: Apr 2005
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Use Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho as a case-study.
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04-24-2006, 10:38 AM
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Wordsmith
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: South-east UK
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Set in the 1800's?
Use Dangerous Liaisons (the movie) as a case study. Just watch the first 5 minutes a few times before watching the rest of the movie.
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