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I try to avoid old, stupid things.		17.5%	[ 2292 ]
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Post: 9235073_1426 created on Wed, 12 Oct 2005 02:05:15 +0000
Posted: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 02:05:15 +0000

(sorry if it's already been said)

The last sentence MUST be: "She woke up and found that it had all been a dream."

No questions asked, this is the best way.

-- Swiffy

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Post: 9235073_1427 created on Wed, 12 Oct 2005 02:30:16 +0000
Posted: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 02:30:16 +0000

Swiftblade

(sorry if it's already been said)

The last sentence MUST be: "She woke up and found that it had all been a dream."

No questions asked, this is the best way.

-- Swiffy

And the begining must start with "Once upon a time..." or "Long long ago..."
That way your readers will know this one isn't worth reading razz

IrkenMegara

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Post: 9235073_1428 created on Wed, 12 Oct 2005 21:43:52 +0000
Posted: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 21:43:52 +0000

If you ever decide to ramp up the angst factor (which is ALWAYS a good idea) by giving one (or more!) of your characters an incurable disease, said disease must never actually interfere with that character's daily life. Showing symptoms is a no-no as well, unless they're coughing up blood or something cool like that.

Ebola is gross. AIDS is edgy. Leukemia is tragic.

(No! This thread can't die! There's only a few more pages to go before it hits 100!)

Morizawa

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Post: 9235073_1429 created on Wed, 12 Oct 2005 22:09:33 +0000
Posted: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 22:09:33 +0000

Not sure if anyone else said this but...

The main heroine must always ALWAYS be a princess of some sort who is suppose to conform to high society life but is at heart just a rebellious(sometimes goth-like) teenager. She can never be a snob or a superficial b***h, she must always be something entirely unrealistic for royalty.

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Post: 9235073_1430 created on Wed, 12 Oct 2005 22:55:08 +0000
Posted: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 22:55:08 +0000

Morizawa

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*runs away to edit*

xd sweatdrop

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Post: 9235073_1431 created on Wed, 12 Oct 2005 23:00:30 +0000
Posted: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 23:00:30 +0000

Wendy_Chan

Morizawa

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*runs away to edit*

xd sweatdrop

hehehe xd

timechaser

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Post: 9235073_1432 created on Thu, 13 Oct 2005 00:21:32 +0000
Posted: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 00:21:32 +0000

No.... don't die! I have one! I do! I do!

Okay, besides announcing your presence in a very annoying way, as I just did, if you find something new and different that really adds to your story (gasp!) you must use it again. And again. And again. And again. And... you get the idea.
So, if one character does something amazing, all the other characters must do it. The first character must repeat the experience several times.

Also! There's no such thing as the Judeo-Christian sort of demon. Demons aren't evil at all. They look just like people, except taller and stronger with fox ears. Demons don't possess people or anything, not at all.

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Post: 9235073_1433 created on Thu, 13 Oct 2005 01:26:33 +0000
Posted: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 01:26:33 +0000

timechaser

demons must also only have sex with humans...never other demons because having crazy munkey sex with someone your own spicies is just grose xd

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Post: 9235073_1434 created on Thu, 13 Oct 2005 01:30:22 +0000
Posted: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 01:30:22 +0000

All toads are named Trevor.
All pretty girls have floaty names.
All paid assasins must at some time fall instantly in love and give up his cruel unruly ways.

Jabberwocky Sinope XXVII

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Post: 9235073_1435 created on Thu, 13 Oct 2005 01:58:55 +0000
Posted: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 01:58:55 +0000

Oister

All toads are named Trevor.
All pretty girls have floaty names.
All paid assasins must at some time fall instantly in love and give up his cruel unruly ways.

Or, if said assassin is female, be able to kick the asses of about five hundred burly men at any given time... y'know, like in Kill Bill!

Alybrylla

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Post: 9235073_1436 created on Thu, 13 Oct 2005 02:26:44 +0000
Posted: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 02:26:44 +0000

Oister

All toads are named Trevor.
All pretty girls have floaty names.
All paid assasins must at some time fall instantly in love and give up his cruel unruly ways.

and the assasin must fall in love with the person they were paied to kill. They stalk them for a while, and are about to slit their throat when they realize they can't do it. The person they are trying to kill will instantly love them back 3nodding

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Post: 9235073_1437 created on Thu, 13 Oct 2005 04:22:31 +0000
Posted: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 04:22:31 +0000

Everyone has to love your heroine because she's just so pretty and so wonderful and so virtuous and talented and intelligent and kind and and and.

Except for her romantic rival. But of course your heroine shouldn't be able to bring herself to hate her rival, even though your heroine's rival would gladly run over your heroine with a truck.
That would be spiteful.

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Post: 9235073_1438 created on Thu, 13 Oct 2005 14:27:17 +0000
Posted: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 14:27:17 +0000

Well, if you're writing fanfiction, remember that the reader's won't be interested in your Original Character unless you make him/her connected in some way to the cannon characters, preferrably along the lines of: "GASP! You're so-and-so's long lost sister not to mention this person's cousin and that guy's daughter, plus when you were born you were engaged to hot-male-character!"

And if you're writing your own story, simply *ahem* borrow the charaters from you're favorite anime/manga/book/movie/TV show and you can do the whole thing again!