Talk:Help for New Writers/@comment-43372064-20190808180557/@comment-25156300-20190808221302

Survivors are hard to write for, simply for the fact that Itachi wouldn't have let anyone escape. He'd search all over and likely would have even searched a perimeter around the village for those who may have ran. And he'd no doubt have a list of members who were already away from the village on missions/etc.

However, that doesn't mean it can't be done (a few Uchiha characters on here have done it well enough). It will just take a well thought out explanation for how they got around it. Simply saying they hid, or they were sent to another village aren't enough. Being in a different village may be ok, but it would have to be something pre-planed well before the massacre, and done secretly enough that Itachi wouldn't be aware of it (because he wouldn't let them live like he did for Sasuke if he knew).

So there's not exactly a specific tip to writing a survivor, outside of making the reason as valid as possible against a guy like Itachi. There isn't a right or wrong way to set it up, so I'd say to come up with your ideas and we could give our thoughts on them once you've made your character's page.