Summary: A brief guide to writing those genres (and subgenres) that are speculative, rather than mainstream, fiction. Largely, this consists of fantasy, science fiction, and horror.

Summary: Some words sound alike, but have different meanings. This is a quick guide to show the difference between the most common species.

Summary: A guide compiled for writers' use of less-than-common English. Will hopefully not only help with writing, but also with clearing murky waters about Shakespearean speech (just a little).

Summary: While there is no magical formula to make people better writers, there are some things they can do to improve their natural skill (or lack thereof). I created this guide and will add things as they come to me.

Summary: After reading this, you too will know when a story is totally awesome or not. Guaranteed or your wasted time back!

This is my humorous way to both try and give writing tips and vent--it's the start of something terrible.

1. Sigh. There is a lot of sighing. Sighing helps establish the fact that the character is a loner, depressed, and has a tragic past. However, sighing is not limited to those three facets of originality. Sighing also proves that the character is bored, unsatisfied, irritated, tired, content, musing, whimsical, or otherwise pensive. Sigh—it’s not just a four-letter word!

Summary: In this guide there are only five steps to follow and they will help you to establish a foundation for your character. And once you do, you can develop them into an awesome character that isn’t a Mary-Sue or a Gary-Stu.

Summary: Yes, it's terrible. Yes, it's distracting. Yes, it's hindering. But, no, it's not indestructible. Here are a few suggestions from your neighborhood Penguiduck on defeating writer's block.

Summary: Don't know how to write a Kuudere? Have trouble making a Tsundere act, well, Tsundere?

Have no fear! This guide will help you with all your Dere troubles!

Summary: As the title states, it's a dictionary. It's not very exciting, but since the official site dictionary came down some time ago, I felt the need to make some small equivalent as a way of explaining things, especially to new members, because it's helpful to have a place to send people when there are more questions than could be easily answered.

Summary: As it says, this is an essay about how to write an essay. Take helpful tips, essay formatting how to's, and a little bit of KD's randomness thrown into the pot, and you come out with just what you're about to read!

Summary: Some of these ideas are meant to inspire you and help you in your writing, especially when it comes to cliches. I will give you ideas and ways to make an old cliches (from plot devices, objects, original characters, etc) unique again. So you'll learn quite a bunch of stuff to help you, even more so when it comes to certain parts of writing. Whether it's because you don't know what the fandom terms are or you have no idea what to do to write something different.

Summary: What is it? How can you check to see if your stories were taken? What to do if you found someone who plagiarized your story? What if they claim you're the plagiarist and they get their “fans” to attack you?

Whatever your concerns are I cover nearly every point when it comes to plagiarism.

Summary: General guidelines for all Lunaescence Fic Trades.

Summary: Having trouble in making your dialogue seem real? Or finding other ways to make your characters say things without actually saying they said? Or are you having trouble with foreign characters and their accents? Well, anything you need to know about dialogue is all in this guide.

Summary: Oh, yes, the reader-insert. It's probably obvious by the number of reader-inserts that I write, but I consider them to be extremely powerful tools to instill emotions in readers. Here's a bit of insight on what goes on in my mind and the things I take into consideration when I write.

Summary: This can be used as a guide for yourself, or you can just read it if you want to know the detailed process of what I go through when writing original fiction stories. 

Summary: Since we do have authors from non-Anglophone countries as well as students studying foreign languages, here's a guide to changing your spell check language.

Summary: The queue can be slow sometimes, and that's just the unfortunate truth. However, there are certain things that you can do as a writer that may help with getting your submissions through the queue faster.

Summary: Why, look at this! It's pretty ironic. Blurbs are summaries, they are what you find on the back-cover of a book. They allow you to introduce and convince people into reading your story. It's important to have a summary if you want to attract people to read your works. Which is why I wrote this guide because it is to help you write a summary for your story. I've listed a few ways to do it, along with some examples to go with them and some helpful hints to keep in mind. As well as what NOT to put on your summaries and/or what your didn't put or do.

Summary: A guide written by Penguiduck and myself. We'll take you through the different aspects of WWYFF writing in the hopes of not only helping you, but inspiring you as well.

A work in progress. Parts will be added as they are written.

Summary: This guide will take you into the mysterious realms of essay writing. Tips from my seventh-grade English teacher and me.

Summary: Tricky twins, naughty neighbors: words that sound alike but are spelled differently.

Summary: Inspired after I routinely witnessed some very rude behavior by some people towards my fellow writers, I decided to create a guide to teach people how to avoid it.

Summary: Need help in writing a tasteful lemon? Maybe how to start it? Or maybe you need help in increasing your writing skills when it comes to lemons? This guide contains a couple of things that can help anyone write a good lemon. As well as, what can be done to improve your skills and educate you on what doesn't work anymore.

Summary: This is a collection of information and tips that I've learned and am now passing on to anyone who will read this.

Last Update: 12/26/07 :Work Area #10

Summary: What is it? How can you spot one (and the subtypes of a Mary Sue)? And how you can avoid them? Or better yet, how can I develop my character better? This includes tips, examples, litmus tests and useful links. So even if your character has some Mary Sue traits/tendencies, the Mary-Sueness can still be averted by a good enough explanation for why they have it and why they do what they do.

Summary: You are absolutely sure your characters are not Mary-Sues or Gary-Stus etc. You have given them flaws, weaknesses, and such believability that they could be reading over your shoulder. So why are people still claiming your character is a MS? It could be in your writing style!

Summary: Dreams and flashbacks aren't the easiest scenes to portray, and there are often people who say "writers who write dream/flashbacks in their story are obviously amateurs." So let's learn how to write these scenes well and blow their minds.

Summary: Do you have animal main characters, but don't know how to go about writing them? Are you afraid of making them "too human"?

Summary: Have people complained about a character being too powerful? Well, this will answer precisely how much power is "too much."

Summary: Yes, character sheets technically aren't allowed on most writing sites, however for those that do allow them, there is a purpose to them, if followed correctly. So, if character sheets can't tell the audience everything about the character, the story or the writing style, how can the reviewer tell the creator that their character might be underdeveloped? In otherwords, a Mary-Sue?

Summary: A basic guide to writing fight scenes, and an added bonus of adding physical weakness to your character to avoid the Mary-Sue label.

Summary: Have people complained to you that your characters or story aren't realistic enough? But do you have a reason, and now you're unsure? What if I told you that you don't always have to write realistically?

Summary: Has anyone complained about your character's name for one reason or another? Was it because it was too plain, or perhaps too "strange"? Or maybe it just didn't fit somewhere? Maybe it was because it was a too popular name or a name that had been used too often? Is it that one aspect of your character that makes people call your character a Mary-Sue?

While names are somewhat important, it's certainly something that shouldn't be considered the number one way to declare whether your character's a Sue or not, and here's why.

Summary: This is where I discuss the romance genre in general, along with what you should worry about when writing overused plots, along with how to write sex scenes.

Summary: This is the first of many of my guides that explains the different facets of Mary-Sues. Here, you'll learn what Mary-Sues are, what they are not, how to create a balanced character, and what to do if you see a suspected Suethor.

This is based on my observations and opinions on various writing sites, and I believe that Mary-Sues are more than just the characters themselves. I have many more guides, which are compiled as a series here called "Mary-Sue: Who is She?" So if you have more questions, maybe one of my other guides can answer them.

Summary: This is just a basic guide for understanding what plots are, how to develop them, the types of plots there are, and a few things for you to keep in mind. Such as when you're dealing with romance and horror plots.