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I just couldn't stop laughing, and the bear's face. xDDD

It's Orihime Inoue, from the Anime series Bleach.

Did I really have to put an ambiguous title for this thread to get noticed in the spam zone?

LAWL! that avatar has got to be the funniest thing ever.

I. MY FIRST STORY
So, you’re interested in writing, but can’t seem to get it right? Feel like you could do better? Well, you’ve stumbled into the right place. Here we will discuss basics for you to get started.

Writing: Writing is often used to express feelings, or to uncap that well of imagination inside one’s mind. Like drawing, it expresses many things in its forms and it differs from person to person.

II. Getting started
Most think that to begin writing one must have great amount of skill and what not. Well, that’s completely wrong! For writing you don’t need anything too fancy. It can be expressed in many forms, so the tools you need are probably right at your fingertips! Neat, huh?

A brain: Seriously. Without a brain the ideas can’t come forth, so it is important that you’re not a zombie, or haven’t been pray to them. Brain-eaters…get it? >.> …okay, maybe it was lame. Let’s continue on, shall we!

Tools: do you have a pencil, paper or writing software in your computer? If so, then you’re set! Any of the tools mentioned can be used. For now, just use the one you’re most comfortable with.

III. The Process

So, are you ready to write, now? No!? Okay…well, let’s see. I can help you with that. I’m thinking that you don’t know how to go about it correctly, am I right? Don’t fret! I have a solution.

Main Idea: What does the story you wish to create centers on? What is the main purpose? Let’s say it’s a vampire story. So you need vampires, duh! And then an idea. The vampires go to the beach! That’s an idea right there.

Plot: The plot keeps the story on-going and gives the characters purpose. Without plot there’s no advancing point. So we add plot to what we already have. The vampires go to the beach in order to make a sand castle. That’s the main gist of plot. Easy enough, huh?

Characters: Characters are like actors. They portray and shape your story. Characters need personalities, be they evil, or good. Characters can be divided into many sub-categories, but for now, let’s focus on the characters needed for our story. Sometimes characters change with different circumstances and maybe the problems and events of the story shape then in different ways. Remember to work with that accordingly.

So, we need vampires. To make a sand castle we at least need 2 characters. After that, we still need to give them gender (male or female) For the sake of equality let’s make one boy, one girl. We already have established that they are vampires. The vampire boy and girl go to the beach in order to build a sand castle. Good, this story is shaping up nicely!

Problem: Problems, problems. We have our daily dose of them in our daily lives, so you must understand the basic idea of having problems. How do we add that into a story? Simple. Problems can be presented as obstacles that move the plot forward. Let’s say a crab threatens to pinch our vampire pair, or that the waves break their sand castle every time. When you write a longer story, it may be a good idea to let your characters' personalities and opinions change in accordance with the problems they come across. Don't worry if that sounds difficult though: it often works itself out.

Climax & Ending: Climax is a great event before the ending, most stories need a climax, and so they build you up, and then soften you with the ending. This is the most normal case of climax and ending, even thought, some skilled writers do play with this a little, but let’s not get into that.

So, now we have our short story ready!


vampire boy n vampir gilr went 1 day to the beech to make a sand castle vampir girl saw a nice sputand began digin on the soft white sand vampire boy began collecting small shels to decorattheir castle not after very long the sky became darker andfat droplets of rain began pouring their beautiful creation was beginning to crumble 2had no choice but to escapetheir mighty castle fell under the evil waters as they ran under the palm trees vampire girl cried vampire boy told her that they could come back and make another with nu hope both returned home with knowing of making another sand caslte

Nice story, huh? But wait….I forgot something! That story looks like a block of text with no colons, semi-colons, or anything for that matter! I guess I should explain the basics of grammar and spelling.

IV. The Way of Writing

So, we’ve written the story, but it’s horrid. Yes, we have not yet mastered the orderly way to write. But wait! We can still fix it! If I show you the correct way, we can actually make something good!

• Grammar & Spelling: One must abide by the rules of the language! One important aspect of writing is order, if the laws of grammar aren’t followed, then it won’t be appealing to people. Same goes with spelling; if one doesn’t know how to spell correctly people won’t understand the message being conveyed.
  
  
• Capital letters: In front of every name, and at the beginning of every sentence goes a capital letter. Capital letters are also used when mentioning oneself (“I”)
  
  Rob went to the park. He brought his kite with him. Notice the use of capital on Rob’s name and at the beginning of the sentence.
  
  
• Period: Full stop. The end of a sentence or thought.
  
  I want Ice cream. After that I want to play. Notice how different thoughts conveyed are separated by a full stop.
  
  
• Commas: Commas are used to separate items in lists, as in They own a cat, a dog, two rabbits, and six mice. In some cases use or omission of such a comma may serve to avoid ambiguity.
  
  I spoke to the boys, Sam and Tom. – The boys refer to Sam and Tom (I spoke to two people).
  
  I spoke to the boys, Sam, and Tom… – The boys, Sam, and Tom are separate units (I spoke to four or more people)
  
  
• Colon: Mostly indicates the beginning of an enumeration.
  "My uncle has got many pets: a dog, a parakeet, a hamster and seven goldfish."
  
  
  
• Semi-colon:Semicolons are followed by a lower case letter, unless that letter begins a proper noun. They have no spaces before them, but one or two spaces after. Applications of the semicolon in English include:
  
  - Between closely related independent clauses not conjoined with a coordinating conjunction:
  
  "I went to the swimming pool; I was told it was closed for routine maintenance."
  
  "A man chooses; a slave obeys."
  
  See how the sentences complement each other; the semi-colon is uniting them, so that you can cut on the choppiness.

Warning: DO NOT OVERUSE THE SEMI-COLON. Whenever possible, just use a comma. It is not a rule, but it serves better to have variation; semi-colons aren’t that necessary.

As a side note: Conjunctions are good, also (and, but, or, yet) they can be used with commas sparingly.

Now we can finish our story with good grammar and spelling!

Vampire boy and Vampire girl went one day to the beach in order to make a sand castle. Vampire girl saw a nice spot, and began digging on the soft, white sand; Vampire boy began collecting small shells to decorate their castle. Not after very long the sky became darker, and plump droplets of rain began pouring, their beautiful creation was beginning to crumble. Both had no choice but to retreat as their mighty castle fell under the treacherous waters. As they hid under the palm trees Vampire girl cried, but Vampire boy told her that they could come back and make another. With renewed hope, both returned home with the promise of creating a sand castle another day.

That’s much better. We have learned almost every basic there is to creating a story.

V. Tips of the Wanderer

Blocks of text: No one likes reading a huge wall of text. This will scare people away! Remember that you need to begin a new paragraph each time a new character speaks. Whenever you think that your paragraph is too long, divide it.

Thinking is your friend: Whenever you’re writing, think about what you are actually doing, feel it. GOING ON AUTOPILOT IS A BIG NO! Try to augment your way of writing each time.

Shorthand button off: 2 every1 who uses shorthand, and lol, ttyl, etc. Do not use it in writing. This cannot be tolerated in writing.

Endure critique: When you show your work you may come across forms of criticism for other writers. Please keep in mind that supportive criticism is only meant to help you, not to shoot your story down. Maybe you'll even learn a thing or two?

Be creative: There are many forms of writing, and there’s really not much boundaries for imagination, so knock yourself out creating new things and expanding your horizons.

I see. I've started only recently(like when I was 15 or so? can't remember right), and well...I'm trying to get my hands on everything I can to learn. I'm not really into publishing my stuff, but I do like writing, so I wanna keep going at it. Thank for the tips.

Okay, I saw the video, and I must say...

Somehow you seem to have started with the wrong foot. I'm going to go point by point with you on this.

Firstly, the characters shown are all FF characters. And coincidentally, the main character looks like Yuna, seems to have the same traits that Yuna has, and is also a summoner. Your best bet would have been to go with no pictures at all.

Secondly, the races don't seem too original(Al bhed), Plus the quality thing is too confusing, it would make amounts of information related to it way too confusing.

Third, Too many guardians with too many confusing ties. One is the other's sister. The other is this one's cousin. And it seems only the girls have this problem.

As for the things to look out for:

-High-quality sound
-Firm voices
-responsible people.

When you say a person "can't write worth a darn." You're saying they can't. Period. Nothing.

And whatever is wrong with publishing something you've written for the first time? Sure she messed up, but she went through with it, and it got to be an actual novel. Sure, not the best, but that's not really the point.

Of course there is critique and sometimes it is harsh, but saying you can't is a very different thing. Sometimes critique can be really destructive, but that's never it's original purpose. Saying one can or can't write is entirely going out from the basis of critique in the first place, since you're not really giving any advice on how to improve or denoting any mistakes.

Besides, expertise would have been denoted if he said something like, "Meyer needs to learn the craft of writing" as opposed to "Meyer can't write worth a darn"

EDIT: By the way...I know we are in the whole heated discussion thing, but...You've gotten your work published and all? And where did you start out and all? Did you start at young age? How do you go about writing stuff? I'm sorry. I'm just kinda looking to better myself and all...

That's actually off. Just because he's regarded as a great writer, does not give him the right to just say who can and can't write. While I've only read a few pages of twilight(and do not like it), I believe it isn't as bad as they make us believe it is. Sure, it's a pretty amateurish novel, but it's not unreadable.

Plus he didn't criticized her writing. He said she couldn't write(quoting you). If you wrote a novel and feel like you've spent time on it, then comes some smart-ass telling you that your time was a waste, when clearly it is not, because the book sells(perhaps overrated, but that's not the point)

Nuuu.....

You can't leave. I'm not done with you, yet. I still need more advice and tips; this is so wrong.

Well, if you have to leave, then sure, go, but when you come back I'll be bombarding you with questions, again.

It's just the age. You know, the memory conditions usually start at old age.

Very good. I see how you've improved in this. I like that you've made this more realistic and leveled in accordance with Tifa's true strength. The prolonged battle was definitely a plus. You've improved.

This still has some of the same spelling errors from before, but the point comes across. Everything else seems more coordinated, but at the same time, somewhat disjointed.

Like, why not use the sword to kill Hikaru, and use the knife that, I believe, was scarcely mentioned?

We are basically talking about random killings, not specific killings, I'm guessing. If so, then running towards a place were the killer has no business in seems like a pretty good idea.

Like the janitor room, the girls bathroom, ect. There's always danger, it's impossible to escape from it completely.

Lol@human shields.

Just go into the girls bathroom, since he's a guy, he won't go there. See, problem solved... :lolface:

Sure...I'll be heading home in a few, so I can definately check it out.

Nothing, much...Just hanging around and what not.

It's time to post

Day of Fantasy

Spoiler

Welcome to Illusion Street
Open the doors of deceit
Come to lie on the floor
But don't ponder on it too much

Welcome to the eternal ever last
Where dreams connect to a never land
Wake up through the morning dew
And watch the stars fall like drops of glue

Goodbye my beautiful, dear heart
Where existence corners the after life
Adios, my little morning star
Tomorrow we will play again, until dawn

Numb-Hate​

Spoiler

I hate you so much,
and I wonder how the saying goes
When you feel you hate someone, so.

I'm afraid you've torn me a hole,
hollow, and void.
I can't even begin to count my woes.

Too lazy to feel anymore,
oh, I hate you so, but,
so lazy to hate someone, so.

And now I feel I hate you more,
for making me feel like this
oh, so numb.
So lazy, this wretched soul.

Add these thoughts to ponder
on my undying sloth,
For I hate you so.
When you've gone and left me so numb.

It's pretty simple.

Here's how it would be linking to your story.

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This would be the code you have to place in your sig space, which can be modified in the user CP. (without the * , of course)

Spoiler

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