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 ]

[Workplace Boredom]

I_Write_Ivre

Workplace Boredom

Misuki Marishima

^ Yes. There are never people just along for the ride, because that means they would be 'grey' or 'neutral'. Those types of people whom are just resting on their laurels never exist.

And there were absolutely no such thing as Nazis who agreed with Hitler's ideas, but disagreed with killing 'inferior' races.

((Ok, I haven't heard of any, but I'm sure there were some, even if they were unpopular.))


There weren't any anti-Nazi Germans in WWII, either.

((There were lots that agreed with Hitler, but no on Jews. Hitler joined an already growing faction and just managed to make a lot more noise on the subject than the others. Many people liked him because he wanted to take back parts to Germany that were given to other countries at the end of the first world war. I think they guy who tried to assassinate him was like this, I'm not quite sure. I do know this happened, though; I have several family references.))

Moving along, all Nazis come from cities full of giant smoke-belching machines. And they are all fully informed about everything their leader does and demands to be carried out.

((Germany was also in a total economic failure at the time, since the Treaty of Versailles demanded from them a debt that was impossible to pay. The Deutchemark became completely worthless as a result. At that time, the Germans would have done anything to restore Germany, even trust Hitler.

So, you know, if it wasn't for WWI, there wouldn't have been a WWII, or maybe even a Great Depression, which was actually worldwide.))

They also kick Jewish babies for fun.

And ONLY Jewish babies. No other race was persecuted during WWII.

[I_Write_Ivre]

And Nazis were the only people ever mean to Jews

[Workplace Boredom]

I_Write_Ivre

And Nazis were the only people ever mean to Jews

But no one ever expected this.

[Frauline Five]

Workplace Boredom

I_Write_Ivre

Workplace Boredom

Misuki Marishima

^ Yes. There are never people just along for the ride, because that means they would be 'grey' or 'neutral'. Those types of people whom are just resting on their laurels never exist.

And there were absolutely no such thing as Nazis who agreed with Hitler's ideas, but disagreed with killing 'inferior' races.

((Ok, I haven't heard of any, but I'm sure there were some, even if they were unpopular.))


There weren't any anti-Nazi Germans in WWII, either.

((There were lots that agreed with Hitler, but no on Jews. Hitler joined an already growing faction and just managed to make a lot more noise on the subject than the others. Many people liked him because he wanted to take back parts to Germany that were given to other countries at the end of the first world war. I think they guy who tried to assassinate him was like this, I'm not quite sure. I do know this happened, though; I have several family references.))

Moving along, all Nazis come from cities full of giant smoke-belching machines. And they are all fully informed about everything their leader does and demands to be carried out.

((Germany was also in a total economic failure at the time, since the Treaty of Versailles demanded from them a debt that was impossible to pay. The Deutchemark became completely worthless as a result. At that time, the Germans would have done anything to restore Germany, even trust Hitler.

So, you know, if it wasn't for WWI, there wouldn't have been a WWII, or maybe even a Great Depression, which was actually worldwide.))

They also kick Jewish babies for fun.

And ONLY Jewish babies. No other race was persecuted during WWII.

And they HATE animals.

[Serverus Snope]

b00_2

And remember, you can't write a story without love.

((coughpetpeevecough))

Poppci

In your story, Young children are always as quick as a whip and as cleaver as an old wise man.

They are not easily distracted, nor do they speak with tiny lisps or broken speech. That would be unrealistic and sound like crap.

Oh, and these children have college-level knowledge by age 10 or earlier. They can't just be mature to a degree and still have some sort of naive portion, nor can they call a complex doomsday device (with an even crazier name) a "planet... destroying... thing."

((If one wanted to make a college-educated child, one could make them one of those 18-year-olds that look like sixth or seventh graders. Quite a few of those out there, oddly enough. Truth in Television, my friend.))

[Glaedr52]

If you just can't be arsed to think up a new power or concept for a character, that's perfectly ok. Nobody will criticize your lack of creativity. Just copy something, or combine concepts. For instance...mecha that can use the force. That's original. Technically. (Ahem...Transformers...you'll see.)

[Workplace Boredom]

Glaedr52

If you just can't be arsed to think up a new power or concept for a character, that's perfectly ok. Nobody will criticize your lack of creativity. Just copy something, or combine concepts. For instance...mecha that can use the force. That's original. Technically. (Ahem...Transformers...you'll see.)

But the transformers are so awesome that it doesn't matter.

What in the world is more awesome than a giant robot that can disguise itself as a car?

[I_Write_Ivre]

Workplace Boredom

Glaedr52

If you just can't be arsed to think up a new power or concept for a character, that's perfectly ok. Nobody will criticize your lack of creativity. Just copy something, or combine concepts. For instance...mecha that can use the force. That's original. Technically. (Ahem...Transformers...you'll see.)

But the transformers are so awesome that it doesn't matter.

What in the world is more awesome than a giant robot that can disguise itself as a car?

It's okay to make non-human things racists stereotypes. If they aren't human, no one can complain.

[Misuki Marishima]

I_Write_Ivre

Workplace Boredom

Glaedr52

If you just can't be arsed to think up a new power or concept for a character, that's perfectly ok. Nobody will criticize your lack of creativity. Just copy something, or combine concepts. For instance...mecha that can use the force. That's original. Technically. (Ahem...Transformers...you'll see.)

But the transformers are so awesome that it doesn't matter.

What in the world is more awesome than a giant robot that can disguise itself as a car?

It's okay to make non-human things racists stereotypes. If they aren't human, no one can complain.

And you can even make the non-human racism resemble human racism, from derogatory names to lynching.

[Indigo Dagger]

Frauline Five

And they HATE animals.

((This is even MORE hilarious, given the very generous and progressive animal rights campaign practiced in Nazi Germany. 'Course, that by no means excuses SLAUGHTERING MILLIONS OF PEOPLE, but I thought it was worth mentioning.))

[Firlodge_the_second]

((Was the bells thing true?))

[theniceguy01]

i do both

[Workplace Boredom]

Misuki Marishima

I_Write_Ivre

Workplace Boredom

Glaedr52

If you just can't be arsed to think up a new power or concept for a character, that's perfectly ok. Nobody will criticize your lack of creativity. Just copy something, or combine concepts. For instance...mecha that can use the force. That's original. Technically. (Ahem...Transformers...you'll see.)

But the transformers are so awesome that it doesn't matter.

What in the world is more awesome than a giant robot that can disguise itself as a car?

It's okay to make non-human things racists stereotypes. If they aren't human, no one can complain.

And you can even make the non-human racism resemble human racism, from derogatory names to lynching.

((That's not necessarily a bad idea, actually. I can imagine the KKK lynching Homo neanderthalensis if they survived to the modern day.))

[Firlodge_the_second]

theniceguy01

i do both

First post please.

[Ludera]

Misuki Marishima

And you can even make the non-human racism resemble human racism, from derogatory names to lynching.

((There've been reports of groups of dolphins ganging up on and killing porpoises for absolutely no reason whatsoever, in the same sort of fashion that radical human hate groups gang up and lynch ethnic groups they don't like. No citation, I know, but I'm sure you can find something on that on Google. If a creature is sufficiently intelligent and social, there'll probably be behaviour resembling racism in some groups of them. So this is truth, not anti-guide material!))

There is only one mental disorder in existence: schizophrenia. There are two kinds of it, the kind where you have multiple personalities and the kind where you hear voices that tell you to kill stuff. The second kind always comes with auditory and visual hallucinations (visual hallucinations always take the form of real people or monsters too, not just weird dots in the sky or whatever) and sufferers are always violent. In the first kind, there's always a violent killer personality. There should be one psychotic villain in every story whose characterization is almost entirely "I'm insane and pitiable," because psychosis is really cool and scary at the same time and when they're just minor characters you don't really need to do any research on the disorder.