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Luna Rose's Actually Useful Mary Sue Litmus Test

Reposted from my blog "Dear Miss Luna Rose, I’m worried that my character is a Mary Sue. She has dyed purple hair and pretty blue eyes. She witnessed her dad’s murder at age 7 and it left her with some issues. She’s also bad at dancing and sometimes her anger flares up and she does things she regrets. Is she a Mary Sue?" —Concerned writer #472 I get questions like this all the time. And I never can tell them a “yes” or “no.” Why not? Because I can’t possibly tell from a short description, andthis misunderstands what it means to be a Mary Sue.Honestly, I blame litmus tests. What’

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5 Tips On Writing FanFiction

Oct 21, 2010

EDIT: If you like this journal entry, check out The Sarcastic Guide to Writing ebook http://www.amazon.com/The-Sarcastic-Guide-Writing-ebook/dp/B005TOCC1C for exclusive content on world-building, character, and dialogue! 1. Don't write it. Seriously. Just don't. You are a million times better off working on your own original ideas, no matter how awful, then to attempt fanfiction. Even the thinnest expy of fanfiction is better (but not by much.) Fanfiction creates numerous false sensibilities about world-building, characterization, and plot; it creates false ego and confidence in the author. Fans of whatever you happen to be writing are

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Writer's Block: Of Course It's Real

Jul 25, 2014

Literature Basics Ever feel like no matter what you do, you just. can't. write? You're not alone. Many other writers have been in the same situation, left frustrated and exhausted trying to get through this. But what can you do about it? What is Writer's Block? According to wikipedia "Writer's block is a condition, primarily associated with writing, in which an author loses the ability to produce new work. The condition ranges in difficulty from coming up with original ideas to being unable to produce work for years. Steps to Overcoming Writers BlockQuit. At least for now, take a step back and breathe. The more you struggle the

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Luna Rose's Actually Useful Mary Sue Litmus Test by MissLunaRose, literature

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Luna Rose's Actually Useful Mary Sue Litmus Test

How to Write Better Character Emotions by illuminara, journal

How to Write Better Character Emotions

Jan 21, 2018

The following is a technique for writing deeply-felt character emotions, as described by Donald Maass in his book The Emotional Craft of Fiction. It's the single most valuable thing I learned about writing fiction in the last year. Step One Pick a moment in your story when your character feels something strongly. Identify that feeling and write it down. Then dig deeper. What else are they feeling? Write down that second feeling. And what else are they feeling beneath that? Writing down that third-level emotion. You should now have a list of three emotions. Example: Fear Vulnerability Loneliness Step Two Work with feeling #3 and examin

.:Starting A Novel Guide:. by Veidara, literature

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.:Starting A Novel Guide:.

~Getting Started~ I’m writing this with novels on the mind since I am almost at 30 novels. I have written over 20 additional novella length stories as well with a ton more books on the way. So you could say I know a thing or two about this more than the average person. And it’s about time I made a guide for it! So I hope this thing helps you. • WHERE TO START: If you are feeling flustered as to where to start writing in your story, DON’T BE! Honestly you can begin anywhere. You can write out of order! I’d say write out whatever scenes you find yourself inspired with and just keep typing till you run out of insp

How to Improve Your Writing by PoetryOD, journal

How to Improve Your Writing

Aug 14, 2015

How to improve your writing In 2013 I wrote an article called How to get more views on your Literature. I wanted to give actual practical advice from people who know, writers established in the DA lit community.The article was (and still is) very popular and seems to have helped a lot of folks so I decided to tackle a different (but way more important question)... how can we make our writing the best it can be? Because it's great to show work to your friends but self improvement, or working towards a goal (for a lot of us that's a writing career, a novel, publication, competitions etc) is a whole different thing. So I asked some of DA's fin

8 Quick Tips for Writing Dialogue by illuminara, literature

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8 Quick Tips for Writing Dialogue

1) Dialogue in fiction is nothing like how people talk in real life. It’s fine to use “as heard in real-life” phrasing, but real-life dialogue is often meaningless. Ideally, every word of dialogue in fiction should serve a purpose and progress the plot or character development. If it has more than one meaning (subtext), all the better. 2) Start the conversation late and exit early. No one wants to read small talk, hellos, or goodbyes unless they add meaning to the story … which is almost never. 3) No info dumping in dialogue, please. Only put quotation marks around what you can actually envision the character saying

5 Tips for Revolutionary Writers by DesdemonaDeBlake, literature

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5 Tips for Revolutionary Writers

5 Tips for Revolutionary Writers Anybody Can Write a Novel Chapter 9 “Types of Writers” – Section 7 “Career Writers” With Links to Supplementary Material Each of us has revolutionary ideals within us—we believe in certain morals, values, causes, and beliefs that we would like to see in the world. And these ideals that we have will affect everything from which characters of which ideals play the antagonistic or protagonist role, to the natural consequences of actions. Not to say that we are all trying to topple a class-based system of oppression; but something as simple as illustrating that being nice

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