12 Tips for Writers: A Guide for Writers
TIPS FOR WRITERS: 12 Tips for Writers: A Guide for Writers
Someone with an average job (teacher, accountant, etc.
Should not have a billion-dollar house.
Half a dozen of the most expensive cars ever.
A dozen maids, and designer clothes, unless they secretly run the mafia!
Please, If you’re going to make your character rich, give them a rich job like a lawyer,
superstar, or CEO of a successful company.
You will not believe how annoying it is to see a name spelled one way on the first page and different on the second.
Instead of concentrating on the story, I start wondering which way the character’s name is supposed to be spelled.
seriously bugs me when two people meet in the first chapter about how
they’re married. I mean, unless their werewolf soulmates are drunk or completely
crazy.
character bouncing during their death. I mean.
going to die! *Bounces* Can I have ice cream?
Most people going into their death are either.
multiple times.
Unless it’s a book written completely in text, please don’t. Second, gee.
where’s the fun in that?
oh-so-suspenseful. Feel free to note the heavy sarcasm.
phrase work, but not are plot ’give-away-less.
Take ‘I Sold Myself to the Devil for Vinyls… Pitiful,
I know by an author I’m
currently too lazy to look up.
Yeah, it does give away a bit of the plot,
next to the summary.
Bra While.
statement. A fact.
necessary, please.
and it made me want to tear my hair out,
POVs enough to make me forget whose head I’m in,
between the lyrics, fine.
offense, but I think I might hit you with a chair.
just falls. I’m not saying.
absolutely hate it.
mature, and masculine,
five-year-old girl that wants candy.
around putting girls on.
perverted thought occasionally,
*Facepalms*
bunch of guys if you have to, just please make it believable.
character brushes it off and doesn’t think about it, and there isn’t some ‘I
have a bad feeling about this,
won’t pay much attention to it. If the character freaks out about it, it’ll
seem big.
THIS IF YOU’RE PLANNING ON READING SAS OR IF YOU ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF READING
IT,
somewhat of a spoiler) (Also, I’m using an example from my own story
because I know what I intended with my story and if I use someone else’s, and
it’s not what they intended… awkward):
Raine and Kaden are dating. They’re at the mall, and Kaden’s staring at some
girl’s butt.
Definitely not ideal for a boyfriend to do, right? But Raine
barely reacts, which makes it seem pretty small.
However, if she had gotten mad at him, and made an argument that lasted three
days, it would’ve been huge.
would’ve reacted to it.
vice versa
This is somewhat related to #9. Using the previous example (the boyfriend
staring at a girl’s butt thing), if option two had happened (the big
reaction),
isn’t her.
Your characters should match their personality.
If you say your character is very easy-going and down to earth, then have them
freak out about someone they’ve met once forgetting their name,
they won’t
seem very down-to-earth and easy-going.
And if your character’s a tomboy rebel but spends five paragraphs wondering
if her/his hair looks okay and worrying about class, it doesn’t make sense.
This seems like common sense, but I’ve wanted to throw something so many times.
From reading a book where the actions/reactions of a character do not match
what their personality is said to be.
One thing I hate is when we suddenly know everything. It feels too coincidental. Yes, we want information.
But we don’t want to find out everything about your character’s scarring past in the first chapter.
Break it up, draw it out. Give a little info here, then wait a couple of chapters.
It’s just weird when by the end of the first chapter we know everything about your main character.
Also, half the time, it comes off as too much explaining. Small reasoning here and there is fine,
irrelevant.
explain’ and ‘oh my god’ and stuff like that.
automatically pause.
natural and if it flows.
Okay, this might just be me, but I think a character should develop during a
story. Like.
Maybe they’re immature and silly at the beginning, but then something
bad happens.
And they become all hard and cold. Or vice versa.
But characters should also develop at a reasonable pace. If the character did
the above in a chapter,
it’d be a bit weird. Even if something bad
happened. Old habits are hard to break.
A player can’t exactly become the
perfect boyfriend in two chapters, he’s still going to look
at other girls, and
make perverted comments and such.
perfectly.
little slip-ups.
different person.
don’t mean to do.
And that’s all for today thank you for reading to the end.
