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Amilli
Oh, and if your villain is not lustful over the hero, they must be related. Must be. Because the line 'I am your father' never gets old, at ALL. People love repeatedly used pop culture references, of course.

Even better than "I am your father?" "I am your older brother who supposedly died in a flood four years ago, but, oh, guess what? I didn't! Furthermore, I'm evil now! biggrin "
Am I a bad person for having the villain lust after my main character? They're "together", sort of, and she's pregnant with his child...

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Am I a bad person for having the villain lust after my main character? They're "together", sort of, and she's pregnant with his child...


No, I doubt it. When I make reference to that sort of relationship, I mean the kind of story that just has the villainess simply fling herself at him within two seconds of deciding she wanted to be a 'good guy' persay. Or after she's been defeated. That's very annoying when you enforce a dislike for hero on the villain part--and vice versa--then simply dissolve it in a matter of seconds and make them boing like bunnies. Humorous when not serious, but sad when meant. -.o
It should be mentioned that, to best highlight beauty, similies involving precious stones are without doubt the most beautiful of them all.

(If I hear the word 'emerald' one more time...)
Descriptions using food and precious gems/stones are the best ways to describe things.

Also, hair should be long, untanglable and never getting into someone's face. It is ALWAYS a waterfall.

(No sarcasm) @ Veive -- Yes it's alright. Amilli's right. It's not 'love at first' sight -- in fact, reminds me of Jareth and Sarah from the Labyrinth. It can be 'love' -- but twisted, deranged and... weird. Lust to say it easily. (Is it in Heartsblood? ^_^ I'd like to read it if it got published.)
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Amilli
Oh, and if your villain is not lustful over the hero, they must be related. Must be. Because the line 'I am your father' never gets old, at ALL. People love repeatedly used pop culture references, of course.

Even better than "I am your father?" "I am your older brother who supposedly died in a flood four years ago, but, oh, guess what? I didn't! Furthermore, I'm evil now! biggrin "

eek uh.....yeah the brother thing...accept it was a war not a flood. And he wasn't the big bad guy, he was the guy who did the "dirty work" for him...... sweatdrop

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When naming your villain, always give him a name that's at least twelve syllables long and contains an obscene amount of G's, V's, and X's. The more it sounds like you're going to throw up when you say it, the better. Be sure to make it dead obvious who is the villain by the sheer repulsiveness of their name. I mean, you wouldn't want your readers to have to guess for themselves, would you?
If you're writing a fantasy story, map out your settings with unrealistic geography. Put glaciers/a tundra near the desert, and a forest right on the edge of an ocean, without cliffs or a beach. Have your main towns as far away from rivers or lakes as possible; people don't need water! Also, have your protagonist cross the entire continent in a day, on foot, to show how heroic she is.
Lebki
Also, have your protagonist cross the entire continent in a day, on foot, to show how heroic she is.


{noncasm}Unless, of course, it's part of your plot. Right?{/noncasm}

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(I have read through this whole thread. Brilliant, just brilliant. I love it.)

If you have already committed the terrible and almost always unreversable crime of research, then blatantly display it. After all, everybody needs to know that the building where your Big Important Plot Event takes place has 563 ceiling tiles in total and the floor actually has a 3.28-degree slant. Extra cookies if you write it right before the Big Important Plot Event takes place. Even more cookies if you do it right in the middle of the Big Important Plot Event.

Always give towns/planets/characters unpronounceable names like "Plttunkw'nk" or "Xlpqtr". Never have characters stumble over these names. (I am guilty of naming a planet "Xlpqtr" in my book... I like to think I make up for it because nobody [including its inhabitants] knows how to pronounce it and instead refers to it as "Xlp... Xlpq... er... the fifth planet orbiting Eta Cassiopeia. I guess it helps that I'm writing a parody...)

If writing a fantasy or sci-fi, stick to the stereotyped fantasy/sci-fi worlds. Originality is for stupid people.

And if you must think about your fantasy/sci-fi worlds (my apologies to those who hate it when I lump fantasy and sci-fi together- they both involve creating worlds, so that's why I'm doing it), make sure you tell everybody each and every detail about such worlds. Everyone wants to know that in Flrk'ichall, 3698 years ago, the duchess's (of a now unknown kingdom) mailman had a slight case of flatulence. They won't notice that it has nothing to do with the plot. Trust me.

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Lebki
If you're writing a fantasy story, map out your settings with unrealistic geography. Put glaciers/a tundra near the desert, and a forest right on the edge of an ocean, without cliffs or a beach. Have your main towns as far away from rivers or lakes as possible; people don't need water! Also, have your protagonist cross the entire continent in a day, on foot, to show how heroic she is.


Oh, yah--don't forget the wildlife. Only magical, fantasy creatures that can all talk should be found by the hero. Half of these should offer advice; the other half should be trying to kill the hero, but when they are vanquished, they offer advice.

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A woman's period does not exist unless it is to create tension. There is no use for it otherwise, as we all know realistic situations are not necessary in fiction.

We all know what the best kind of poems are: teen angst. We just can't get enough of that slashing, bloody, cliche-infested stuff!

At least half of all of your story couples should be homosexual for no real reason. Your average, happy, heterosexual couple is so one minute ago. Homosexual relationships are the new cool! And, believe me, no one will care if they aren't realistic, so you have no need of research in the area either.

When sailing, there is no such thing as a lack of wind or the breeze going the wrong way. It will always be on your character's side, no matter what.

Anyone can catch a fish that's great to eat with no special fishing equipment in any body of water, even if it's only a 2-inch-deep stream. You are the writer - you can make anything happen!

Parasites? Bacteria? Just a lot of superstitious hooey. Your characters are fine cooking anything for only three seconds before chowing down.
If at any point you have trouble writing how cool your action is, watch Kill Bill a few thousand times and remember how all those ninjas died just so you can imitate their deaths. Describe every slice of the sword, every time it cuts into an enemy, only, use the same words every time you do it so you end up repeating yourself about thirty times. Spell sword as soward, and when you are called out on it, insist that's how you like it spelled no matter how many times you get a concussion from someone hitting you over the head with a dictionary. Create an entire alien race of enemies, bent on the destruction of your hero, and destroy all of them in a single slice of your soward on the next page. Maybe the hero doesn't even touch them, but just looks at them funny and then they explode, that's hardcore, right? Right...

Now we give your hero an ultimate weapon (because how he defeated that alien race just wasn't cool enough) that can destroy everything by using all of his power, but he doesn't really use all of his power, because if he did, your face would explode when you read it. Let's not stop there. Let's show everyone how you can use big words, and ask your friend for a big word that sounds cool for your hero's ultimate weapon. Then be a sucker when your friend tells you to use "Deus ex Machina" and use that seriously without researching it, because you're way too cool to bring yourself down to that level. I mean, if you ever had to research, you'd just overdose on grape Children's Chewable Cold and Flu Tablets because life just wouldn't be worth living anymore and that's all you have in your medicine cabinet.

Your villains should constantly talk about how evil they are. They never try to hide their evil. I mean, someone's just going to find out anyway what with all that cackling laughter they do. Have them kill one of these types of people within five seconds of them being introduced, or nothing will feel right about the villain: One of their own henchmen (classic), a woman, a baby, or a guy with a special message to the Hero that could change the course of history.

If you can't come up with a good reason to get your hero mad so he can use his ultimate weapon, make one. Create a childhood friend, introduce them, and have them killed by the villain on the same page. That'll pull those heartstrings. In fact, your tears are already welling up because you remember how your friend overdosed on Children's Chewable Cold and Flu Tablets. Not even your idea to kill yourself is original. Aren't you proud?

Create holidays for your fictional world, but just make them the holidays of this world with one word changed. Good exampels are: Cristmas, Haloween, Thanksgiven, Cwanzaa, Hanookah, Kasual Friday, etc. There's no need to stretch your brain past the two brain cells god graced you with. Aren't you lucky? You don't have to work hard like those idiots with their plot progression, character development, and other things with big words that you had to look up and then get wrong after reading them. Oh no! You just realized that was research! Better head to that medicine cabinet as soon as possible. Make sure to scrawl your last words out in blood, (because it makes your death seem cooler) but you're too squeamish to cut yourself so just use the pink liquid from the ground beef in your fridge. But even then you're too squeamish for that, because you're Vegan, and you're probably going to die in the next few seconds from a lack of iron and protein but being Vegan is cool and all your friends are Vegan, at least they used to be before they died, so just get a red ink pen instead. Your note should read as follows.

Too My DEREST MOTHR,

i r ded, be sad, morn me. i hant you now, i a gost, blarg, i r ded, we r owt off peenot booter git som, ande i hate grape chewobls, git ornge bit KNOT AMINAL ORNGE, im VEEGAN!!!



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