PixelNomadMar 14

I want to write a comic book about a superhero in his 20s who comes from a very wealthy family but my friend says its stupid. Should I give up?

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I want to write a comic book about a superhero in his 20s who comes from a very wealthy family but my friend says its stupid. Should I give up? - Sopuli

I’m writing a story about a biracial superhero. He’s in his 20s, and his dad is a Black billionaire. His mom is Japanese, and she comes from a wealthy family. I don’t want to give too much away, but there is something about his family’s history that resurfaces, and it connects to his powers. He is basically trying to find out what it is. My friend says the story is stupid and no one would want to read it.

Show threadParagoneMar 15

If you want to write a story, then it is in working-out the meanings that you will earn what your unconscious-mind wants to earn.

Same with people wanting to earn a pilot’s license, or climbing a mountain, or doing SCUBA.

If some of your meaning is hidden in that kind of work, then you aren’t going to earn that part of your meaning by putting it on a shelf, because somebody-else deemed it unimportant.

I’m recommending that you read & understand 5+ books, though, as they dismantle story the technology so that you can more-competently work out your story-meanings:

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-anatomy-of-genres is the most important: it is on the 14 genres that the West has landed on, & the dimension-of-human-meaning that each genre works-on.

Horror works-on one’s unconscious-mind’s understanding of death, & its relationship with it.

Which may explain Grimm’s, tbh.

Detective is intellect.

etc.

The 14 happen in a particular sequence because that’s the sequence in-which each mind-development stands on the previous-ones.

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/presenting-to-win-updated-and-expanded-edition-2 may seem a strange recommendation, but understanding the 12 TYPES of information-presenting, will help crack some story-problems.

Need a character to fail to communicate something?

Pick the correct for your story wrong-method for them to use, if you see what I man.

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-anatomy-of-story is the other-half of Truby’s work. The 22 steps in story, & why each.

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-story-grid is THE book on editing. There is no book that tops that.

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Framed+Ink is THE book for getting visual communication working in comics & visual-novels.

Now I discover that there are multiple books in the series ( I got the original, long ago ).

Dig in, earn what your unconscious-mind is trying to earn, grow your meaning, & clobber your difficulties/obstacles.

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Show threadParagone

Sorry I didn’t realize this earlier:

You NEED to understand what Paul Fussell wrote about the North American Class-System, in order to make that work

( & if you’re in Europe, or elsewhere, it’ll still clue you in to many important things about class-systems )

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/%22Paul%20Fussell%22?Ntk=P_key_Contributor_List&Ns=P_Sales_Rank&Ntx=mode+matchall

You can see his Class-Status book, there, & also his one on why uniforms are the way they are ( which I didn’t know-about until right-now ).

Coarsely, there are 4 classes:

  • Upper ( measures status by someone’s POWER )
  • Middle ( measures status by someone’s INSTITUTION OR INSTITUTION-BESTOWED-DEGREE )
  • Working ( measures status by someone’s MONEY )
  • Under ( homeless-people, etc: people like me, who’s racked-up 7+y outright-homeless )

More finely-grained, however, it’s more like:

  • Upper { Monarchs, hereditary-Oligarchs, minor “nobility”, etc }
  • Financial ( have the wealth to be exempt from most of the regulations & many of the laws )
  • Upper-Middle ( doctors/professors/lawyers/diplomats/engineers/etc )
  • Middle ( lower-to-mid beaurocrats )
  • Upper-Working ( self-employed, or owns their own business )
  • Middle-Working ( foremen? )
  • Lower-Working
  • Under

Upper-class do not have a “job position": they hire middle-class people, like hired-dogs, to get specific jobs done.

The sycophantism to the upper-class is real.

You can see upper-class behavior among some top upper-middle-class people, when they intentionally walk too-slow, so as to force everybody all around them to pace-match them, “showing their importance”.. ( I’ve seen that, repeatedly, on a deputy-minister, at one site I worked, years ago )

Anyways, I hope that your story’s awesome, & is sooo well-wrought that you gain many many many readers.

Oh, this’ll help, too:

Logan, King, & Dr. Fischer-Wright’s book “Tribal Leadership”, as it’s on the 5 social-process-levels, so if you understand those, you can use that to show the process-change in characters when they’re stressed/opressed/afflicted, & they’re climbing down into Level2 or Level1 of social-process function.

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/tribal-leadership-revised-edition

Here’s the TED Talk to go with that book, so you get the gist of it, to understand why it’d be important to make a story more true in your readers’ minds: https://www.ted.com/talks/david_logan_tribal_leadership

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Mar 15 at 6:25pmWeb