I thought this would be an interesting way to give new authors tips!
Basically I will start with 1 tip starting with A and then the next person replies with a tip starting with B and so on and so forth. (When we reach the end, we loop back to A)
I feel like this will just spice up the variety of tips.
Tip A) Actions! Actions are used to make your story more animated, you can use talking actions when characters are speaking like this:
CHARACTER (talk_armscrossed)
“Oh no he didn’t”.
And you can use actions for other things such as sleeping, E.g. @CHARACTER is idle_eyesclosed_sleep.
(If those aren’t actual actions, pardon my stupidity, I am in geography class and I am physically drained.)
C is for CREDITING
Credit anyone who gives you CC (Custom Content, AKA backgrounds and overlays which are not of your creation.)
A good thing to ensure you do is the ask them if there is any specific way to credit them or whether it is fine just to put “readerMessage Credit to USER for CONTENT! with Credit:”
I is for Internet
If you are writing a story about gangs, a disability e.g. autism or schizophrenia etc; then you need to know the topic well, Use the Internet and check the validity of your sources. If you’re a blind writer, you may offend people. (A blind writer is a writer who spreads stories on episode of which are not true or non-factual and can cause misconceptions on fact.)
For example, a blind writer had put all the characters WITH AUTISM as 1-2 types, The kind that repeats their words and has trouble to get words out, and the kind of autism in which the person will say random phrases over and over. (These are actually 2 types of autistic people at my school, so an example of the second is when my friend says “Sorry taylor, beyone had b-best music video of all time” and repeats it over and over AND no he doesn’t just say that, that is an example.) However as I was saying, I actually have autism myself and found no character representing version of autism I have along with a variety of others. So please use the internet and find a variety of different factors about the topic, that way you’re not being a blind author and steryotyping someone by accident. <3
Don’t worry. xD I do that to.
In the I for internet one. I had to go through and delete every repeated word, because my autism tends to make my brain forget that I typed something and I will will put it twice by mistake.
Moved to Directing Helps and Tips since this is for directing tips. Make sure to check out our Forum Tutorial for more info about where to correctly create topics, and feel to PM me if there are any questions.