The Anti-Guide

How do you try to improve your writing?

I try to avoid old, stupid things.	17.5%	[ 2253 ]
I add new things.	14.9%	[ 1923 ]
A combination of both (if one more than the other, pick it).	67.6%	[ 8707 ]
Total Votes:			[ 12883 ]

[TehBrownCow]

If at any point in a story with a modern setting your character goes to an amusement park, something bad must always happen there.

ALWAYS.

[The Phoenix Rises Again]

Misuki Marishima

There's no such thing as a girl being successful on her own and still single.

This is why its okay to have more than one boyfriend. If you're awesome enough, they won't get jealous.

[MiaIkumis#1Fan]

The Phoenix Rises Again

Misuki Marishima

There's no such thing as a girl being successful on her own and still single.

This is why its okay to have more than one boyfriend. If you're awesome enough, they won't get jealous.

Unless you want to cause angst! No one will hate your female main character for angsting 20 pages about which of her dozen love interests she should take to the prom. Bonus points if several of the love interests are exactly the same except for their name, hair color, and eye color.

[The Phoenix Rises Again]

MiaIkumis#1Fan

The Phoenix Rises Again

Misuki Marishima

There's no such thing as a girl being successful on her own and still single.

This is why its okay to have more than one boyfriend. If you're awesome enough, they won't get jealous.

Unless you want to cause angst! No one will hate your female main character for angsting 20 pages about which of her dozen love interests she should take to the prom. Bonus points if several of the love interests are exactly the same except for their name, hair color, and eye color.

More bonus points if she should be dealing with something else more important.

[MiaIkumis#1Fan]

The Phoenix Rises Again

MiaIkumis#1Fan

The Phoenix Rises Again

Misuki Marishima

There's no such thing as a girl being successful on her own and still single.

This is why its okay to have more than one boyfriend. If you're awesome enough, they won't get jealous.

Unless you want to cause angst! No one will hate your female main character for angsting 20 pages about which of her dozen love interests she should take to the prom. Bonus points if several of the love interests are exactly the same except for their name, hair color, and eye color.

More bonus points if she should be dealing with something else more important.

What could be more important than the prom?!

Sure saving humanity is important and all, but it can totally wait until after the prom!

[Misuki Marishima]

MiaIkumis#1Fan

The Phoenix Rises Again

MiaIkumis#1Fan

The Phoenix Rises Again

Misuki Marishima

There's no such thing as a girl being successful on her own and still single.

This is why its okay to have more than one boyfriend. If you're awesome enough, they won't get jealous.

Unless you want to cause angst! No one will hate your female main character for angsting 20 pages about which of her dozen love interests she should take to the prom. Bonus points if several of the love interests are exactly the same except for their name, hair color, and eye color.

More bonus points if she should be dealing with something else more important.

What could be more important than the prom?!

Sure saving humanity is important and all, but it can totally wait until after the prom!

Yes, because this is where love interests are formed, so they can be kidnapped and saved along with the world! 8D

[Amiable Aberration]

TehBrownCow

If at any point in a story with a modern setting your character goes to an amusement park, something bad must always happen there.

ALWAYS.

Or not, because lack of plot is just that awesome. Something bad happening has plot, and that sucks.

[Firlodge_the_second]

Ludera

Firlodge_the_second

((I figure that in 'normal' people, the levels are generally controlled by hormones until you reach a certain age and then when hormones go wack, the controls slip.

Blood type factors in too.

I'm with you on the gradual process thing.))

((I'm thinking of linking mine to FSH production as a way to explain why older women can do more than men (FSH is a hormone that is low before puberty--for both men and women--and very high in menopausal women, so menopause might mark a second stage in magic-gland development), but I need to do more research. I'll also have to attach it in some way to the thyroid, though I'm not exactly sure how I can connect that to puberty yet either. There's only one kind of magic though (healing) so I don't need to worry about the biology of different abilities, thank god. I'm assuming that's what you're using the blood types for?))

((Not really. I use it to decide how many 'powers' each person is capable of expressing.

Innate magic (as opposed to substance magic which is just... yeh, let's not go there) latches on to the antigens on red blood cells. There is no genetic determination of which magic dominates which magic (because that gives even me a headache), it's just a matter of which one gets there first.

In O- blood, it's just a red blood cell so no magic for them, even if they did inherit the correct gene makeup for it.

O+ people get one. Ditto for A- and B-

A+ and B+ get two.

AB+ get three.

And I complicate matters further by alelles for magic and how powerful said magic is.))

[Battphink]

It's vampyre, not vampire.

[-Resurrected Writer-]

Battphink

It's vampyre, not vampire.

And oupire is just a silly word.

[Battphink]

-Resurrected Writer-

Battphink

It's vampyre, not vampire.

And oupire is just a silly word.

Oupyre.

[-Resurrected Writer-]

Battphink

-Resurrected Writer-

Battphink

It's vampyre, not vampire.

And oupire is just a silly word.

Oupyre.

Thys ynsystence makes for a great runnyng gag whenever vampyres are ynvolved.

[Battphink]

-Resurrected Writer-

Battphink

-Resurrected Writer-

Battphink

It's vampyre, not vampire.

And oupire is just a silly word.

Oupyre.

Thys ynsystence makes for a great runnyng gag whenever vampyres are ynvolved.

Yndeed. Gyves yt an old-world feel, too.

[I_Write_Ivre]

Battphink

-Resurrected Writer-

Battphink

-Resurrected Writer-

Battphink

It's vampyre, not vampire.

And oupire is just a silly word.

Oupyre.

Thys ynsystence makes for a great runnyng gag whenever vampyres are ynvolved.

Yndeed. Gyves yt an old-world feel, too.

And every sentence starts wyth 'prithee' or 'forsooth'

[MiaIkumis#1Fan]

Before: I'm so completely in love with this vampire! His eyes are so sparkly and they're like topazes OMG!!!

After: Forsooth, methynks my heart hast utterly fallen o'er o vampyre! Prithee, Hyst orbs ist much fylled with shynyng dew lykist on topazesist OMGist!!!

That is exactly how you transform any normal sentence into Ye Olde Englysh. Screw the research, just replace the words and letters how you think they should be!