I've recently been digging deep (well, deeper than normal) into professional writing standards and it blows me how much the mormons (just look up Bran Sanderson lectures) are killing this scene. On the other hand, we get shoved with GARBAGE advice when we look up "writing guides" on Youtube.

A typical Bran Sanderson/Shadiversity writing video:

• Double space everything and indent your paragraphs. You will be rejected instantly if you don't.
• Check your perspectives. Don't switch between different types of 3rd person by accident. You will be rejected.
• There are 3 categories of fiction writing levels, each one aimed at a specific target market. The customer is always right, and your word count has to be aimed at the age and demographic of the type of reader you're aiming for.
• Show don't tell, cut the adjectives saying how emotional something is, and actually write emotional dialogue.
• and so on.

"writing advice" from Leftie Youtube:

• Don't write orcs as bad people. That would be perpetuating racial stereotypes.
• If you write about rape, it has to be delivering a specific message about trauma or empowerment. You might end up perpetuating rape.
• Focus on THEMES, and try to drive your entire narrative around delivering that one message you have in mind INTO your audience's head. If you pick an environmental THEME, the goal of the story is to MAKE the audience become more environmentally conscious by the end of it.
• Focus on feelings and surprise, you don't want to bore them so keep bombarding your reader with newer and flashier things they haven't seen before. If they don't feel something, you've failed. Add more special effects until they do.
• You don't want to do a boring standard story, You want to subvert their expectations. All the fucking time. Everyone knows the man has to save the woman. Nobody is going to see the shocking twist of a woman that don't need no man, coming from miles away.

Seems to me one side of writing advice actually knows what the fuck they're doing, the other is the writing equivalent of overly relying on cheap gimmicks and special effects, when they're not using the medium as another tool to insert their political opinions into people's heads.

I've recently been digging deep (well, deeper than normal) into professional writing standards and it blows me how much the mormons (just look up Bran Sanderson lectures) are killing this scene. On the other hand, we get shoved with GARBAGE advice when we look up "writing guides" on Youtube.

A typical Bran Sanderson/Shadiversity writing video:

• Double space everything and indent your paragraphs. You will be rejected instantly if you don't.
• Check your perspectives. Don't switch between different types of 3rd person by accident. You will be rejected.
• There are 3 categories of fiction writing levels, each one aimed at a specific target market. The customer is always right, and your word count has to be aimed at the age and demographic of the type of reader you're aiming for.
• Show don't tell, cut the adjectives saying how emotional something is, and actually write emotional dialogue.
• and so on.

"writing advice" from Leftie Youtube:

• Don't write orcs as bad people. That would be perpetuating racial stereotypes.
• If you write about rape, it has to be delivering a specific message about trauma or empowerment. You might end up perpetuating rape.
• Focus on THEMES, and try to drive your entire narrative around delivering that one message you have in mind INTO your audience's head.
• Focus on feelings and surprise, you don't want to bore them so keep bombarding your reader with newer and flashier things they haven't seen before.
• You don't want to do a boring standard story, You want to subvert their expectations. All the fucking time.

Seems to me one side of writing advice actually knows what the fuck they're doing, the other is the writing equivalent of overly relying on cheap gimmicks and special effects, when they're not using the medium as another tool to insert their political opinions into people's heads.

I've recently been digging deep (well, deeper than normal) into professional writing standards and it blows me how much the mormons (just look up Bran Sanderson lectures) are killing this scene. On the other hand, we get shoved with GARBAGE advice when we look up "writing guides" on Youtube.

A typical Bran Sanderson/Shadiversity writing video:

• Double space everything and indent your paragraphs. You will be rejected instantly if you don't.
• Check your perspectives. Don't switch between different types of 3rd person by accident. You will be rejected.
• There are 3 categories of fiction writing levels, each one aimed at a specific target market. The customer is always right, and your word count has to be aimed at the age and demographic of the type of reader you're aiming for.
• Show don't tell, cut the adjectives saying how emotional something is, and actually write emotional dialogue.
• and so on.

"writing advice" from Leftie Youtube:

• Don't write orcs as bad people. That would be perpetuating racial stereotypes.
• If you write about rape, it has to be delivering a specific message about trauma or empowerment.
• Focus on THEMES, and try to drive your entire narrative around delivering that one message you have in mind INTO your audience's head.
• Focus on feelings and surprise, you don't want to bore them so keep bombarding your reader with newer and flashier things they haven't seen before.
• You don't want to do a boring standard story, You want to subvert their expectations. All the fucking time.

Seems to me one side of writing advice actually knows what the fuck they're doing, the other is the writing equivalent of overly relying on cheap gimmicks and special effects, when they're not using the medium as another tool to insert their political opinions into people's heads.

I've recently been digging deep (well, deeper than normal) into professional writing standards and it blows me how much the mormons (just look up Bran Sanderson lectures) are killing this scene. On the other hand, we get shoved with GARBAGE advice when we look up "writing guides" on Youtube.

A typical Bran Sanderson/Shadiversity writing video:

• Double space everything and indent your paragraphs. You will be rejected instantly if you don't.
• Check your perspectives. Don't switch between different types of 3rd person by accident. You will be rejected.
• There are 3 categories of fiction writing levels, each one aimed at a specific target market. The customer is always right, and your word count has to be aimed at the age and demographic of the type of reader you're aiming for.
• Show don't tell, cut the adjectives saying how emotional something is, and actually write emotional dialogue.
• and so on.

"writing advice" from Leftie Youtube:

• Don't write orcs as bad people. That would be perpetuating racial stereotypes.
• If you write about rape, it has to be delivering a specific message about trauma or empowerment.
• Focus on THEMES, and try to drive your entire narrative around delivering that one message you have in mind INTO your audience's head.
• Focus on feelings and surprise, you don't want to bore them so keep bombarding your reader with newer and flashier things they haven't seen before. - You don't want to do a boring standard story, You want to subvert their expectations. All the fucking time.

Seems to me one side of writing advice actually knows what the fuck they're doing, the other is the writing equivalent of overly relying on cheap gimmicks and special effects, when they're not using the medium as another tool to insert their political opinions into people's heads.

I've recently been digging deep (well, deeper than normal) into professional writing standards and it blows me how much the mormons (just look up Bran Sanderson lectures) are killing this scene. On the other hand, we get shoved with GARBAGE advice when we look up "writing guides" on Youtube.

A typical Bran Sanderson/Shadiversity writing video:

• Double space everything and indent your paragraphs. You will be rejected instantly if you don't.
• Check your perspectives. Don't switch between different types of 3rd person by accident. You will be rejected.
• There are 3 categories of fiction writing levels, each one aimed at a specific target market. The customer is always right, and your word count has to be aimed at the age and demographic of the type of reader you're aiming for.
• Show don't tell, cut the adjectives saying how emotional something is, and actually write emotional dialogue.
• and so on.

"writing advice" from Leftie Youtube:

• Don't write orcs as bad people. That would be perpetuating racial stereotypes.
• If you write about rape, it has to be delivering a specific message about trauma or empowerment.
• Focus on THEMES, and try to drive your entire narrative around delivering that one message you have in mind INTO your audience's head.
• Focus on feelings and surprise, you don't want to bore them so keep bombarding your reader with newer and flashier things they haven't seen before.

Seems to me one side of writing advice actually knows what the fuck they're doing, the other is the writing equivalent of overly relying on cheap gimmicks and special effects, when they're not using the medium as another tool to insert their political opinions into people's heads.