The Anti-Guide

How do you try to improve your writing?

I try to avoid old, stupid things.	17.5%	[ 2370 ]
I add new things.	14.7%	[ 1993 ]
A combination of both (if one more than the other, pick it).	67.8%	[ 9169 ]
Total Votes:			[ 13532 ]

[Witch of Rokkenjima]

hecate-athena

Please, sticking to the timeline is for losers. Feel free to haves females wearing pants in the medieval era, people drinking coffee before it existed, and taking baths more then once a year, and anything else you can think of. No one will notice ninja .

Of course. ninja
And there's no way your skateboarding, headphone-wearing, annoying sidekick will stick out in 18th-century London/Paris/feudal Japan.

[hecate-athena]

Hanae-chan

hecate-athena

Please, sticking to the timeline is for losers. Feel free to haves females wearing pants in the medieval era, people drinking coffee before it existed, and taking baths more then once a year, and anything else you can think of. No one will notice ninja .

Of course. ninja
And there's no way your skateboarding, headphone-wearing, annoying sidekick will stick out in 18th-century London/Paris/feudal Japan.

*le gasp* Never! How could you suggest such an outrageous thing?

[Witch of Rokkenjima]

hecate-athena

Hanae-chan

hecate-athena

Please, sticking to the timeline is for losers. Feel free to haves females wearing pants in the medieval era, people drinking coffee before it existed, and taking baths more then once a year, and anything else you can think of. No one will notice ninja .

Of course. ninja
And there's no way your skateboarding, headphone-wearing, annoying sidekick will stick out in 18th-century London/Paris/feudal Japan.

*le gasp* Never! How could you suggest such an outrageous thing?

I don't know.
I feel ashamed now.
*Hangs head*

[thisshitisoldandgottago]

The person who magically gets transported to a parallel universe automatically understands the language of that world, no matter how obscure it is to normal people, because your character is just that special.

[Witch of Rokkenjima]

Of course your hero/ine can play his/her instrument of choice without EVER practicing.
Sheet music? What's that? He/she composes everything on the spot, duh!

[Lady_Brimstone]

Practicing? Dit QUOI!! No hero should ever have to practice, but is an automatic pro the minute they decide they want to be the best in that field.

[Witch of Rokkenjima]

Lady_Brimstone

Practicing? Dit QUOI!! No hero should ever have to practice, but is an automatic pro the minute they decide they want to be the best in that field.

Naturally.
But of course it's not bad writing.
It's because of DESTINY!!!!111one/being half angel, demon, etc/the weapon or other related item being enchanted/all of the above.

[thisshitisoldandgottago]

Your character, by some great good luck, recieves a gift from elves/dwarves/unicorns/whatever that magically comes in handy to save their life/their lover's life.

(To think that nearly all these were in the novel I started writing as a thirteen year old gonk )

[Witch of Rokkenjima]

Your hero/ine should NEVER have allergies. Allergies are for LOSERS, dag nabbit. Save that for the comic relief.
Unless you have, say, a dust-mite allergy. Then everyone in your universe except for the villain should have that allergy. The villain is therefore unnatural and needs to omfgDIIIIEEE!!!111
At your hero/ine's hand, of course.
And while this allergy will never, ever actually have adverse effects on your hero/ine, they will continually angst over it.
The readers will absolutely ADORE it.

[thisshitisoldandgottago]

Your character's stepmother turns out to be the evil villan in the end! OMG! NEVER SAW THAT ONE COMING!

[hecate-athena]

Wendy_Chan

Your character's stepmother turns out to be the evil villan in the end! OMG! NEVER SAW THAT ONE COMING!

*coughCINDERELLAcough*

[Witch of Rokkenjima]

Everyone, regardless of age, will either not curse at all or have every other word be an expletive.
Even if they're so young that, technically, they can't actually pronounce half of the words.

[thisshitisoldandgottago]

hecate-athena

Wendy_Chan

Your character's stepmother turns out to be the evil villan in the end! OMG! NEVER SAW THAT ONE COMING!

*coughCINDERELLAcough*

That was one of the plot twists to the wonderful, entertaining, absolutely positively brilliant novel I started at thirteen. xd

[Triste Morningstar II]

If you have a fighter hero who gets whacked around during training, it's because his/her sensei is RILLY MEEN1!/1!.1/.1?!?!!!!!!1!1!1ONEONE!1!!!! It's not because your hero needs to get toughened up or anything. Also, if you hero shows blatant disrespect and is chastised, it's because his/her teacher (who is probably helping the protagonist for no cost!) is FOMG SO MEEEEEEEEEEEEN!!!/!/1!1!!!!!/1/11/11/11?!!??111ELEVENTY!!11

Also, if your protagonist gets hit around by her parents when she does bad things, she is TEH ABUZED!!!/1 That's why all people who lived in the middle ages had INCREDIBLE ANGST, because their mummys and daddys lived by the old saying "Spare the rod and spoil the child." Under no circumstances can a character get used to being whacked. He/she will definitely never think of it as normal.

[hecate-athena]

Wendy_Chan

hecate-athena

Wendy_Chan

Your character's stepmother turns out to be the evil villan in the end! OMG! NEVER SAW THAT ONE COMING!

*coughCINDERELLAcough*

That was one of the plot twists to the wonderful, entertaining, absolutely positively brilliant novel I started at thirteen. xd

*giggles*

The villain has to be a relative of the hero(ine), whether it be known or secret. It's a plot twist that never gets old, do you hear me? Never!