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 ]

[avearia]

twilek_jedi

marshmallowcreampie

I_Write_Ivre

Firlodge_the_second

Ludera

((I remember an incident in middle school that fits that trope well. A girl I knew got caught with a big bag of cocaine in her locker. She was arrested or something similar (whatever happened, she was in a lot of trouble), and we had to go to an assembly to talk about how bad drugs are. It turned out it was actually a bag of Kool-aid powder not mixed with anything. Maybe that's why I find Mistaken For Junkie funny.))

((Uh...what's Kool-Aid? I'm English/British.))

A sugary-powder you mix with water and drink to get a sugar high.

((Hippies *cough*KenKesey*cough* also mix LSD in it so they can get a real high.))

Technology is always evil, never mind the fact that your MC drives a sports car/Hummer and has cool cell phones and whatnot.

((Don't forget cultists!
But that's depressing... We don't want to talk about cultist Kool-aid.))

Technology is bitter about being used to destroy the environment without anyone asking it's feelings in the matter.

And Nature is always pure and helpful and loving. I mean, who ever heard of nature being destructive?

What did you say? Hurricanes? Tornadoes? Earthquakes? Tsunamis? Natural Climate Change? Oh, that. Those are just instances of when Mother Nature was upset at humans and our technology. If we disappeared, those things would never happen ever again.

twilek_jedi

Extreme cultist beliefs are fine if the followers listen to the MC. We call them 'love' and 'leadership'.
But even the most doubting of evil minions is a radical. He can't ever be convinced any other way and will always die for his evil master.

Villainous henchmen always believe in their master's cause. they're never in it just for the money, or don't know any other way of living besides obeying the big bad. You're either pure evil or on the good side, period.

[marshmallowcreampie]

Nobody likes original mythical creatures. If you really want to make your own mythical creature, just create it and slap the name of a known mythical creature on it.

(( *cough*Twilight*cough* Seriously, if one had described a "Meyerpire" to me without using the word "vampire", I never would've guessed it was one of those blood-sucking creatures of the night.))

[I_Write_Ivre]

No one ever gets caught in between a fight. Fights are also not unknown or misunderstood to anyone around it.

[Mad4Monkeyz]

i do a lot of things and am always trying something new because if i dont things just gets too boring too fast

[Glaedr52]

I_Write_Ivre

No one ever gets caught in between a fight. Fights are also not unknown or misunderstood to anyone around it.

On a similar note, your MC can slaughter an evil army without batting an eye. They were probably all evil anyway. None of them had wives that they sent letters to, or young sons that they promised to teach a sport to when they finally got home, or aging parents that they sent their wages back to every year with a letter that told them no, dad, he won't make it back for Christmas this year either, or friends that always joked about how unlike the soldier it was to join the army, and the hero knows all this so massacring them is fine! ((OK, have I convinced anyone to write a story from a mook's perspective yet?))

[I_Write_Ivre]

Any woman who causally admits she's had an abortion is evil and slutty.

[Ludera]

Women who choose abortion are evil and slutty.

If she has an abortion she will also feel bad about it forever, because she killed her own baby even if she doesn't think of embryos as babies.

[avearia]

Glaedr52

I_Write_Ivre

No one ever gets caught in between a fight. Fights are also not unknown or misunderstood to anyone around it.

On a similar note, your MC can slaughter an evil army without batting an eye. They were probably all evil anyway. None of them had wives that they sent letters to, or young sons that they promised to teach a sport to when they finally got home, or aging parents that they sent their wages back to every year with a letter that told them no, dad, he won't make it back for Christmas this year either, or friends that always joked about how unlike the soldier it was to join the army, and the hero knows all this so massacring them is fine! ((OK, have I convinced anyone to write a story from a mook's perspective yet?))

Hey! It's like you're insinuating that Mooks have personalities and lives. Haha, that's funny.

((Well, I always thought it would be interesting, but I don't know how you'd go about writing such a story...))

[I_Write_Ivre]

Ludera

Women who choose abortion are evil and slutty.

If she has an abortion she will also feel bad about it forever, because she killed her own baby even if she doesn't think of embryos as babies.

You only need an abortion due to choice. Good girls don't' have abortions, and sometimes they're spared rape, and even sex if they're really pure and good and perfect.

[Firlodge_the_second]

avearia

Glaedr52

I_Write_Ivre

No one ever gets caught in between a fight. Fights are also not unknown or misunderstood to anyone around it.

On a similar note, your MC can slaughter an evil army without batting an eye. They were probably all evil anyway. None of them had wives that they sent letters to, or young sons that they promised to teach a sport to when they finally got home, or aging parents that they sent their wages back to every year with a letter that told them no, dad, he won't make it back for Christmas this year either, or friends that always joked about how unlike the soldier it was to join the army, and the hero knows all this so massacring them is fine! ((OK, have I convinced anyone to write a story from a mook's perspective yet?))

Hey! It's like you're insinuating that Mooks have personalities and lives. Haha, that's funny.

((Well, I always thought it would be interesting, but I don't know how you'd go about writing such a story...))

((Considering...how do you write a story from a dead guy's point of view? A mook's relative on the other hand...))

((Weinberg wintered))

[Ares Tenno]

Mad4Monkeyz

i do a lot of things and am always trying something new because if i dont things just gets too boring too fast

Whoops! It appears you are unaware of your current surroundings. xp

[marshmallowcreampie]

Ludera

Women who choose abortion are evil and slutty.

If she has an abortion she will also feel bad about it forever, because she killed her own baby even if she doesn't think of embryos as babies.

Even if she had the abortion because giving birth would kill her. Any person with common sense knows they should risk their life for a kid that may or may not survive, because, at least in the case of your hero, her kid will always survive no matter what the doctors say! Doctors are always wrong anyway.

[Misuki Marishima]

marshmallowcreampie

Ludera

Women who choose abortion are evil and slutty.

If she has an abortion she will also feel bad about it forever, because she killed her own baby even if she doesn't think of embryos as babies.

Even if she had the abortion because giving birth would kill her. Any person with common sense knows they should risk their life for a kid that may or may not survive, because, at least in the case of your hero, her kid will always survive no matter what the doctors say! Doctors are always wrong anyway.

That's right. Haven't you read your Discworld yet, Million-to-One chances are always right!

[FanFantasy]

Firlodge_the_second

((I didn't think Suethors would bother to do research, though.))

Anti-guide! How do zero-tolerance polices in school work?

((Holy, I leave for 3 days and you guys create 8 pages.....))

Well, you see, THEY DO NOT EXIST. Like randomly running out of school to save your Trw Lwv will not result in you getting detention, and it is not called truancy. The school will automatically know that there is some life and death situation involved with MC and MC's love. They aren't running just because they're stupid kids.

[FanFantasy]

marshmallowcreampie

f r e e z e r - p o p s

Your heroine must hate the color pink, no matter what. Otherwise she'd be too girlie for anyone to possibly relate to her.

To really relate to the reader, she must also:

Hate sports (if she loves sports, that's too boyish!)
Be clumsy
Consider herself OH SO PLAIN!!!!111!!!
Be white with brown hair and brown eyes

Don't forget, the best way to help your reader relate to the MC is by giving the MC as little personality and hobbies as possible. This will make it easier for the reader to insert themself as the character.

Don't forget though, no one except the slut can hate her! She's all loved, she's really a beauty and everyone tells her, but she doesn't believe them.

((If I was told everyday by my friends I was pretty, I'm sure my head would be the size of Canada or something. ))