RotG/GoC Fanfiction Writing Tips- Fandom Cap. by CaetlynoftheStars, literature
Literature
RotG/GoC Fanfiction Writing Tips- Fandom Cap.
Almost everyone knows to capitalize characters’ names, places, and the first word in a sentence, but what about other words specific to the RotG and GoC fandoms, like Guardians and Snow Globes? In these fandoms, there are many words that should be capitalized that you might not be aware of; these words don’t seem like proper nouns, after all. But here is a list: Guardian(s) Fearling(s) Nightmare(s) (the horses, not the dreams) Tooth Box(es) Yeti(s) Elf/Elves Dreamsand Black Sand Warrior Egg(s) (the moving egg statues in Bunny’s Warren) Tooth Palace Moon Man in the Moon Globe (as in the Globe of Belief, the one in North’s workshop with the lights on it) Snow Globe(s) (the ones that create portals) Mother Nature’s Empire Pooka Sister(s) of Flight Golden Age Nightmare King As a general rule, if it’s a species, group, place, or special object/substance specific to the RotG and GoC fandoms, it’s capitalized. That means if you make up something in one of those
RotG/GoC Fanfiction Writing Tips- Romance by CaetlynoftheStars, literature
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RotG/GoC Fanfiction Writing Tips- Romance
Romance: what everyone has problems with in the stories they read. Whether the love’s unrealistic, or the relationship deepens too quickly, or whatever, there are many ways you can get romance wrong in the eyes of your readers. Actually, this is one of the issues I’d say original published works aren’t as exempt from more than fanfiction. There is problematic or just boring romance everywhere.
Which means if you get it right, you even have a leg up over some non-fanfiction stories.
Whether you’re writing a ship between two canon characters, a ship between a canon character and an OC, or an X-reader, I have some tip
RotG/GoC Fanfiction Writing Tips- Centers by CaetlynoftheStars, literature
Literature
RotG/GoC Fanfiction Writing Tips- Centers
I’ve read a lot of RotG and GoC (Guardians of Childhood series—the books the movie is loosely based off of) fanfiction. Like, a lot a lot. And as I’ve read and read, some common problems have emerged.
A fanfiction’s quality can really dictate its readership. When I compare, say, on Quotev, the favorites on one fanfiction that’s fantastic, and another of the same type (ex: a certain ship) that isn’t written so well, the more well-written one has many more favorites. Sometimes fanfictions have more than others because one story’s about a more popular topic, but if you want to earn as many readers as yo
Guardian Centers Explained - Writing Tips by Tallieho, literature
Literature
Guardian Centers Explained - Writing Tips
What is a Guardian's "center"?
It could easily be claimed that the Guardians are nothing more than self proclaimed mascots of entirely abstract concepts. But to say that their representations are equivalent to that of soft science would be altogether contrived. For the center of a Guardian is not scientific, but idealistic. Their job is not to mandate, study, or teach the ins and outs of the aforementioned concepts, but to inspire indulgence of so said center in its purest form; innocent and sincere. It is their lot in life not just to encourage these things, but to experience them abundantly, which they can only do with genuine apprec
10 Tips for Creating a Protagonist by DesdemonaDeBlake, literature
Literature
10 Tips for Creating a Protagonist
10 Tips for Creating a Protagonist
Anybody Can Write a Novel 2.0
Chapter 5 “Characters” – Section 2 “Protagonists”
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“Plot is people. Human emotions and desires founded on the realities of life, working at cross purposes, getting hotter and fiercer as they strike against each other until finally there’s an explosion—that’s Plot.”
—Leigh Brackett
Apart from Primary and Secondary Protagonists, there are many other different protagonist characters-types that can drive a story—ranging from heroes, to villains, to antiheroes
9 Tips for Creating Your Antagonist by DesdemonaDeBlake, literature
Literature
9 Tips for Creating Your Antagonist
9 Tips for Creating Your Antagonist
Anybody Can Write a Novel 2.0Chapter 5 “Characters” – Section 3 “Antagonists”
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“You don't really understand an antagonist until you understand why he's a protagonist in his own version of the world.”
-John Rogers
Whether the obstacle that stands in the way of your protagonist is an evil person, a person of just another philosophical belief, a person with a contradicting goal, a force of nature, a force of the supernatural, a monster, an emotion, an exper
8 Tips for Describing a Story Setting by DesdemonaDeBlake, literature
Literature
8 Tips for Describing a Story Setting
8 Tips for Describing a Story Setting
Anybody Can Write a Novel
Chapter 3 “World Building” – Section 3“Describing Settings”
With Links to Supplementary Material
Another tricky skill to master in writing is setting description. Setting description is often the first thing that a reader encounters in a story, making it an essential skill to perfect if you want to hook your readers. To make matters more complicated, it is often difficult to calculate the right amount of description in settings—too much or too little can either leave the reader bored, overwhelmed, or confused. Today, I'm going to talk abo
How To Get People To Read Your Writing by Tallieho, literature
Literature
How To Get People To Read Your Writing
Or another way to put it, "10 Tips To Avoid Amateur Mistakes". I'm primarily talking about fanfiction, though a lot of this could easily be applied to original works of literature as well. And no, I am not writing this to insult anyone, I'm writing this because I want people to improve. After all, a writer is never done learning. Though I'm no English teacher, so by no means do I plan on quoting your entire English 1 text book. I simply have a few tips and tricks to share with you if you'd care to read them. I'll do my best to keep this list simple... as simple as it gets, anyways. (Mind you, I did not say "short and sweet", I said "s
Readymades: Hallmarks of Lazy Writing by ShadowedAcolyte, journal
Readymades: Hallmarks of Lazy Writing
ReadymadesHallmarks of Lazy Writing
ShadowedAcolyte (https://www.deviantart.com/shadowedacolyte) here for projecteducate (https://www.deviantart.com/projecteducate)'s Prose Basics Week. I decided to tackle "lazy writing" as a topic, because they always say "write what you know" and boy, do I know laziness. Then I realized there were dozens of ways to be a lazy writer, so I heroically narrowed the scope of my article down to one broad topic: readymades. After talking about what a "readymade" is, I'll explain why they should be avoided in writing prose*, and I'll finish with some tips to help you avoid using them yourself.
Before we go any further, I should note that the term is not a technical one. It is the word I was