Things to Avoid in your Writing #6: White Washing
This post is a bit of a spin-off of my Stereotypical Characters, as well as Foreign Languages posts. While I wrote the former to illustrate the dangers of lazy character […]
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Things to Avoid in your Writing #５: Stagnation
Stagnation. It’s a terrible thing. We’ve all seen it before. The perfect example is standing water. What happens to it again? It gets filthy, the lack of movement leads to […]
Things to Avoid in your Writing #2: Mary Sue and, her brother, Gary Stu
Even if you don’t realize it, we’ve all met the siblings Mary Sue and Gary Stu. See, the reason we don’t realize we’ve met them is because they’re utterly forgettable. […]
Things to Avoid in your Writing #1: Deus Ex Machina
Okay, so who here knows what Deus ex Machina means? Literally from Latin it means “God in the Machine”. In the literary sense it means something much worse. Deus ex […]
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