So my main character is unbelievably smart and I need to come up with loads of extremely difficult "tests of intelligence" for her to overcome, but can't think of anything other than committing the perfect crime and then afterwards being told to solve it.
Ideas?
>can't think of anything other than committing the perfect crime and then afterwards being told to solve it.
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>>17269654
>So my main character is unbelievably smart
>Her
So she's a cyborg or something, right? Kinda cool, I suppose.
>>17269654
Quality writing usually involves main character overcoming a challenge related to the characters flaw. So whatever your character flaw is use that.
And if your character is flawless then he/she is called "Mary Sue" and you are just writing power masturbation fantasies which is ok and what a lt of writers do but don't publish.
>>17269654
>I need to come up with loads of extremely difficult "tests of intelligence" for her to overcome, but can't think of anything other than committing the perfect crime and then afterwards being told to solve it.
But solving the perfect crime would be easy as hell if she was the one who committed it, she'd already know how everything happened.
And committing the perfect crime would be easy as hell if she was the one investigating it. Getting away with it would be just as easy as saying "I couldn't figure it out"
>>17269654
If at all possible you should try to avoid writing characters that are very intelligent because a writer can never convincingly convey a character that is smarter than they are, they just always come across like wizards.
