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--- Quote from: Darkshore on April 23, 2011, 06:33:46 PM ---I'm liking the "Normal" route that I'm taking with my current protagonist. Completely regular guy that manages to get the wool lifted from his eyes and is awakened to seeing what other everyday people just don't. (It's a bit more complex than that but I'd rather not bore you with the details.) Makes for some very interesting situations.

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Neil Gaiman books (ie Neverwhere, American Gods) tend toward that direction, one of the big reasons I like em. 

comprex:

One of the things I dislike most is mystic "powers" that are given way, way, way deep buried in the work.   

Present the possibility up front or don't do it at all. 

Darkshore:

--- Quote from: comprex on April 25, 2011, 06:45:18 PM ---One of the things I dislike most is mystic "powers" that are given way, way, way deep buried in the work.   

Present the possibility up front or don't do it at all. 

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I agree 100% it just seems to well cliche...to a point anyways. I feel like I've found a good way to incorporate it into my work though.

The Corvidian:
Make your character a "weirdness magnet", he always seems to get into trouble, and when things are darkest help shows up. Give him a friend who has been watching over him since he was a kid, and this friend is a powerful supernatural entity.

Snowleopard:
I have a friend who feels she is an actual "weirdo magnet" as far as she is concerned.
The topper was the woman, and friends, who sat down at her table in a restaurant at a  convention and after just a bit
started going on about her husband the nudist and the various decorative p*nis covers she made for him.

Oh, found out who the author was of the series of short stories.
It was Ron Goulart and the book was called - Ghostbreakers.

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