The Anti-Guide

How do you try to improve your writing?

I try to avoid old, stupid things.	17.5%	[ 2292 ]
I add new things.	14.9%	[ 1951 ]
A combination of both (if one more than the other, pick it).	67.6%	[ 8852 ]
Total Votes:			[ 13095 ]

[Hawthorne]

So, those are going to end up being links or an outline? (with the appropriate content, of course)

[radioactive alchemist]

I just wanted to show off the sheer number of categories (I added another 5 with the second page). The final outline (on the webpage, with links) will be arranged according to some obscure scheme that I come up with.

[Hawthorne]

radioactive alchemist

I just wanted to show off the sheer number of categories (I added another 5 with the second page). The final outline (on the webpage, with links) will be arranged according to some obscure scheme that I come up with.

So, no more alphabetic?

A web page might actually be extremely lovely. There is a great deal of information that has been compiled in the Anti-Guide that is actually presented in one of the more interesting fashions.

[Sergeant Sargent]

Lord_of_the_Funk

if one of your characters is mising a character flaw....make him/her a werewolf!1!1!1!1!11111


because nolthiing is koooooolllller then a werewolf

nooooooo he sould b a vampire d00d!!!!11!!!11!1! wtfomigoshDUH!

(( xd ))

[Cola Cola]

There is no such thing as a crush. Upon first sight of the love interest, your character should NOT think 'he/she is attractive,' nor should they gain a small infatuation. IT MUST BE TRUE INSTANT LOVE.

Because, if it's not INSTANT, how will the reader know that it's truly MEANT TO BE 4EVAR?

[Jasper Riddle]

NPC Chain

There is no such thing as a crush. Upon first sight of the love interest, your character should NOT think 'he/she is attractive,' nor should they gain a small infatuation. IT MUST BE TRUE INSTANT LOVE.

Because, if it's not INSTANT, how will the reader know that it's truly MEANT TO BE 4EVAR?

the two main charas could luuuurrrve each other, but deny it until just before the final boss fight, when both confess and they have wild monkey sex. biggrin

[Tavreynya]

Over the course of the story, your uber-bubbly-happy heroine must encounter at least one diehard cynical character and restore his faith in humanity. That's how you know that your heroine is awesome and not, you know, annoying.

[Jasper Riddle]

Tavreynya

Over the course of the story, your uber-bubbly-happy heroine must encounter at least one diehard cynical character and restore his faith in humanity. That's how you know that your heroine is awesome and not, you know, annoying.

(I can see that... "Would you please piss off?" *twitch* "No! Not unless the goodness in your soul finally emerges!" *hits her upside the head and fakes a grin* "Ah, yes! I feel the goodness! Now get lost!" wink
Extra points if it happens a) at the beginning, so they have a valuable ally throughout the tale, b) in the middle when the heroine is in terrible danger and they're the only one who can save her OMG! c) right in the middle of the final boss fight, when the bad guy is about to strike the finishing blow and the cynical one leaps in and takes the hit!!

[Lord_of_the_Funk]

Sargent_Stupid

Lord_of_the_Funk

if one of your characters is mising a character flaw....make him/her a werewolf!1!1!1!1!11111


because nolthiing is koooooolllller then a werewolf

nooooooo he sould b a vampire d00d!!!!11!!!11!1! wtfomigoshDUH!

(( xd ))

better yet make it a halfvampier half werewolf....it wcould be your own super origonal creaton called a werepier!!!!!1 Just simply ignore the fact that they are two difrent spices and they would probubly never mate, or if they did there child would turn out to be a sin against nature mutent...I mean come on.....in good stories nowbody exsept loosers have sex with anyone even remotly close to their own spicices its just now koooooooolllllllll!!1!!!!!1!!!!

[goldcelestial]

Lord_of_the_Funk

Sargent_Stupid

Lord_of_the_Funk

if one of your characters is mising a character flaw....make him/her a werewolf!1!1!1!1!11111


because nolthiing is koooooolllller then a werewolf

nooooooo he sould b a vampire d00d!!!!11!!!11!1! wtfomigoshDUH!

(( xd ))

better yet make it a halfvampier half werewolf....it wcould be your own super origonal creaton called a werepier!!!!!1 Just simply ignore the fact that they are two difrent spices and they would probubly never mate, or if they did there child would turn out to be a sin against nature mutent...I mean come on.....in good stories nowbody exsept loosers have sex with anyone even remotly close to their own spicices its just now koooooooolllllllll!!1!!!!!1!!!!

it must be a ligerwolf!!!!!!!!
then they have fangs and the most ultimate combo of skillz!!!!!!#!#!@!#$!@ lol

[Lord_of_the_Funk]

Jasper Riddle

Tavreynya

Over the course of the story, your uber-bubbly-happy heroine must encounter at least one diehard cynical character and restore his faith in humanity. That's how you know that your heroine is awesome and not, you know, annoying.

(I can see that... "Would you please piss off?" *twitch* "No! Not unless the goodness in your soul finally emerges!" *hits her upside the head and fakes a grin* "Ah, yes! I feel the goodness! Now get lost!" wink
Extra points if it happens a) at the beginning, so they have a valuable ally throughout the tale, b) in the middle when the heroine is in terrible danger and they're the only one who can save her OMG! c) right in the middle of the final boss fight, when the bad guy is about to strike the finishing blow and the cynical one leaps in and takes the hit!!

and then they fall in love and ride off into the sunset o a white horese andlive in lala lkand with the licorus woods and the candy corn sun were the children dance and frolic by the rainbow stream with gumdrop smiles rofl

[Tavreynya]

Jasper Riddle

c) right in the middle of the final boss fight, when the bad guy is about to strike the finishing blow and the cynical one leaps in and takes the hit!!

Because everyone wants to take a hit for the heroine so they can be a Noble Sacrifice. No one ever seems to think of death as a way to get away from that whiny brat.

Also, you must always refer to the main villain as the "boss," and that battle as the "boss fight." Video games are life, always were, and always will be.

[Lord_of_the_Funk]

there must always be and anoining fairy gardian to gide you the all powerful gem of light that is ontop of mount. Domararacar.

[goldcelestial]

Tavreynya

Jasper Riddle

c) right in the middle of the final boss fight, when the bad guy is about to strike the finishing blow and the cynical one leaps in and takes the hit!!

Because everyone wants to take a hit for the heroine so they can be a Noble Sacrifice. No one ever seems to think of death as a way to get away from that whiny brat.

Also, you must always refer to the main villain as the "boss," and that battle as the "boss fight." Video games are life, always were, and always will be.

BUT THAT'S JUST IT!!! that guy does it so he won't have to live with her whining if they both live, or the moping and angsting of the main character if she dies. xd

[KiwiOfDestruction]

Lord_of_the_Funk

Sargent_Stupid

Lord_of_the_Funk

if one of your characters is mising a character flaw....make him/her a werewolf!1!1!1!1!11111


because nolthiing is koooooolllller then a werewolf

nooooooo he sould b a vampire d00d!!!!11!!!11!1! wtfomigoshDUH!

(( xd ))

better yet make it a halfvampier half werewolf....it wcould be your own super origonal creaton called a werepier!!!!!1 Just simply ignore the fact that they are two difrent spices and they would probubly never mate, or if they did there child would turn out to be a sin against nature mutent...I mean come on.....in good stories nowbody exsept loosers have sex with anyone even remotly close to their own spicices its just now koooooooolllllllll!!1!!!!!1!!!!

And totally forget that bullshit about having to be bitten.




Last names must have "moon" in them.

Having your hero/ine be an orphan totally outweighs having them be a b*****d. Being an orphan is an OMGANGST point, and everyone can pity them, and the hero can shrug off all their pity stoically. Where as no one will pity them for having unmarried parents, they will be ridiculed. And the only way your hero can be ridiculed is if they're some sort of cross-breed. +300 bonus points if you have your orphan live with the cruel family of the mother's sister that includes an inredibly overweight son that the hero must stay with every summer so that the villain can't kill them (by the shields of love). NO. ONE. HAS. DONE. IT. BEFORE. EVAR. +500 bonus points if they had to raise themselves with no one to look after them.