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My Friend's Mary Sue

How to Help a Friend While I focus on friends with Mary Sues, most of this advice also applies to family members, art idols, and strangers. Have you ever picked up a new story, feeling good about its potential to lift you up and alleviate your boredom, only to find that it houses a dreaded Mary Sue? You stare at the piece of paper. Now what? You aren't pond scum, so you know better than to type "ur chara is a mary sue, u suck, go die in a hole." But what do you say? On the one hand, you don't want to hurt the writer's feelings, or turn them off of writing forever. But on the other, you feel that you have to say something... This guide wil

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Against the Current

Curtains of uncertainty enshrouding from without, A lost and frightened child entombed with nervous doubt, Swimming hard against the swell of trite and empty words, The hands of love distorted, veiled, out of reach and blurred. Each second passed becomes an eon unto my own soul, Hoping, praying, and silently trying to learn my role, For as the sun and moon move on, day and day again, The shrinking glint from high above cries mutely for her friend. To the empty sea ahead, whose depths contrast supreme, The eyes of hope within myself, will yet retain a gleam, For neither dolor nor despair can ever subjugate, To one who holds true to themselv

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5 Things to Consider Before You Start a Comic

Dec 16, 2014

Oh yeah, if you'd like support me at Patreon I'm here http://www.patreon.com/droemar 1. Write a freaking script! Don't get me wrong, I adore ~KayFedewa (https://www.deviantart.com/kayfedewa) and The Blackblood Alliance. But Kay herself has admitted how much trouble she got herself into by starting the comic and not having a script. And when one of the top artists on DA admits to the pitfall, you had best sit up and take notice. It's called a graphic NOVEL, folks. And just because it has cute pictures doesn't mean you get to half-ass it. Considering how much work goes into making a graphic novel looks good, I am continually gobsmacked by the number of people who plunge into

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5 Things to Consider Before You Start a Comic by Droemar, journal

5 Things to Consider Before You Start a Comic

Dec 16, 2014

5 Pieces of Critique You Should Always Disregard by Droemar, journal

5 Pieces of Critique You Should Always Disregard

Apr 14, 2013

1. "I have a problem with your premise." This is the red flag to end all red flags. I don't care how flimsy the premise is. Every idea has the potential to be a good story. Execution is something else entirely, but if somebody doesn't like your idea: don't listen to them. What they're basically saying is "I am not an Ideal Reader, therefore not your target audience, therefore I am not the right person to critiquing your work." I hate, hate, hate people who think you should be writing for broader audiences than your story is capable of reaching. If you're writing romance, you're writing romance for romance readers. You're not trying to reach

5 Tips On Fantasy Religions by Droemar, journal

5 Tips On Fantasy Religions

Oct 15, 2012

I'm not looking for a religious discussion. If someone starts one, I will rip your face off and block your comments. 1. How involved a deity is affects religion. At least in fantasy, anyway. Now of course there are plenty of fantasy religions that don't bother to clear up whether a god actually exists, and the driving elements of the story or more about religion and power rather than spirituality. So considering whether god or gods actually really do exist at all in your story is a perfectly cromulent question. However, if a god does exist, and is constantly involved in the lives and well-being of its worshipers, enemies or non-believers mi

5 Tips on Creating Dynamic Character by Droemar, journal

5 Tips on Creating Dynamic Character

Sep 6, 2012

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. Start with a concept. This is how most of my characters start, and they usually begin with two or three word descriptors. "Demon stallion" or "spoiled dragon prince" or "psychic dolphin". Characters as this stage are more anima than anything; they are forces at play in the primordial soup of story. When an idea is this new, I try not to focus on it too much. Ideas need time to germinate, and I've found myself disappointed

5 Best Things That Ever Happened To My Writing by Droemar, journal

5 Best Things That Ever Happened To My Writing

Jun 23, 2012

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. No one cared that I wrote. I say this in kind of the sin of omission sort of way. Looking back on growing up, no one in my family paid attention to the hours I spent in front of a keyboard. My mom never picked my brain about plots, my siblings were more likely to mock my prose than be curious about it. My pursuit was ignored, treated with apathy, as opposed to being actively cast down as "stupid" or "a waste of time". Whi

5 Ways Characters Can Fail by Droemar, journal

5 Ways Characters Can Fail

May 14, 2012

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. They don't have flaws. Flaws are the first thing that should be explored in character, at least after the first flashes of inspiration have passed and you start moving into more concrete turf. People say Mary Sues are defined by lack of flaws; the flip side insists that giving your character "issues" won't make a character any less of a Mary Sue. Now, my definition of a Mary Sue doesn't involve flaws or the lack thereof;

5 Things I Bet Amateur Writers Haven't Considered by Droemar, journal

5 Things I Bet Amateur Writers Haven't Considered

Feb 1, 2012

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. You will have to reduce your story to one page. This is called the query letter, what you write when you try and land a legit agent or publisher. You basically say "Hey, this is what my story's about, how long it is, and why I chose you to look at it." It is, in my opinion, one of the most difficult things a writer will ever face. All your nuance, your subtle build-ups, your "yes, buts", and your "no, wait, there's more

5 Ways to Un-Cliche' a Cliche by Droemar, journal

5 Ways to Un-Cliche' a Cliche

Nov 30, 2011

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. Do your damn research. I can't stress this enough. We live in the freaking Information Age, and the concept of Googling is an alien one to too many people. While I could easily go on a rant about anti-intellectualism, I'll rein it in and say that cliché' is largely anachronistic. People use them because they're familiar, not necessarily what's true. When I started world-building for my Western steampunk/cattlepunk

5 Cynicisms About NaNoWriMo by Droemar, journal

5 Cynicisms About NaNoWriMo

Oct 26, 2011

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! I have always snickered at the NaNoWriMo's. I've never participated, because I've never needed to: I wrote my first novel when I was 14, and have averaged about one every year since. If you think that makes me smug, I'll point out that one really good way to get a writer's habit is to get six inches of titanium surgically inserted into your crooked spine. When writing becomes about the only thing you can do without scream

5 Popular Writers You Should Not Emulate by Droemar, journal

5 Popular Writers You Should Not Emulate

Sep 3, 2011

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. Stephanie Meyer. Yeah, yeah, big shock. The thing about Stephanie Meyer that gets me isn't necessarily her actual prose (although it can be pretty bad), but the fact that she breaks so many writing conventions. Probably the biggest being that her protagonist never truly sacrifices anything to get what she wants: she gets her boyfriend, she becomes a vampire, her father's suddenly okay with both of those things, she ge

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