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I think Me, The fallen one, ZY, and you could actually have it covered... Look Ima home sick all week I have loads of time...

With the contest, I would just make a combined large contest! A single thread with all the contest requirements in them. Then have a separate thread for voting, and submitting...It would probably increase the activity around here.
 
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Honestly, one active thread at a time for individual contests is easier to keep track of than several different threads for each stage of them (even if they're supposed to be "all-in-one"). I looked up a lot of really older contests before starting the ones I have in recent times, and I hated how sloppy they looked because they had different threads for each stage. But, that's my opinion... In any case, I'll see about doing a third contest for regular poetry, but that might be it for them then. The main reason for starting them in the first place was to try and bring some attention back to the WC and give people something to do again (if that wasn't obvious).

As for the guide, it's supposed to be a long-term project, so I guess I'll look into starting it up again soon. The problem before was that we former members of Writer's Haven just lost interest in it somewhere down the line or something.
 
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I agree with the poetry idea. I write some good poems, but I don't think they're the type people would read. Other than that, they're good! I'm new to this forum, so I'm a bit nervous.
 
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@Apollo

Something like a Writer's Guide would definitely be something I would be interested in helping out in :)
 
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Do you plan to be going by CH's old template, or are you going to make a totally new one instead?
I know that bits and pieces of it are in the old TWH thread in no particular order...
 
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It seems that everyone wants the writers guide...
It looks like I guessed good with what the writers wanna do!
 
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DNA: If you could copy-and-paste the outline from the old thread and PM it to me as well as paste it here, I'd be grateful. There was also a hidden thread I salvaged original articles for Zy from before. I'll ask him if he still has those since the thread in question recently had to be removed (if not, I'll look into recovering it somehow).
 
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This is a direct copy-paste from the OP of the TWH topic...unedited, as you might gather just from reading it. It'll take me a while to find the finished sections; I'll need to dig through the topic.

Writing Topic/Technique Discussion/Group Activity- The Writer's Haven's Guide to Better Writing
Come help us compile a super guide covering all topics of writing!

Current Progress/Layout and Assigned Authors:

Intro (Crystal Hikara)

An introductory post that would link to all the specific writing standards. :B Starring me, the grammar nazi! And everyone else in this club that is as grammar nazi as I am. Yes, that means you DNA.

Getting Started: The Basics of Writing

-Basic Sentence Structure
-Spelling and Grammar
-Common Mistakes on 'They're, There, and 'Their'-like Words
-Creating Your Own Original Character!
-Basic Description (Apollo)

The Story, The Plot, and The Theme: Intermediate Writing

-Types of Fanfiction (Pokemon-wise) (Crystal Hikara)ROUGH DRAFT COMPLETE!
-Canon Vs. Non-Canon: Pick your Poison (Crystal Hikara)
-Making Believable Plots
-Making Interesting Plots (Zenith)
-Character Development
-Battles in Stories: Better Known as We Will Cry If We See Another 'Dodge-it-then-use-Thunderbolt' Fight Again (gamercal) ROUGH DRAFT COMPLETE!
-Themes in Fanfics (optional)
-Plot-Holes and How to Avoid Them
-Point of Views in Fanfiction and Which is Best for You (Apollo)

Fine-Tone Honing: Advanced Writing

-Description and You: How much Fluff is Too Much? (Apollo) ROUGH DRAFT COMPLETE!
-Foreshadowing and Smooth Storytelling: Keeping Those Readers Hooked! (Zenith because he stepped up to the plate)
-The Fictional Camera: Showing the Story and Making Your Readers Feel Like They're A Part Of The Story (Zyflair) Rough Draft complete(?)
- Semicolons, Colons, Dashes, and Parentheses
- Flaws in Design: Making Your Characters Believable (Crystal Hikara)
- Figurative Language: Bringing Poetry into Prose (Crystal Hikara)
- Symbols and Motifs (Zyflair)
- Quests and Character Development (Zyflair)

Critiquing and You: A Definite Must-Read for a Better Fanfic!

-General Rules of Thumb (Crystal Hikara) ROUGH DRAFT COMPLETE!
-Spelling and Grammar: The Grammar Nazi's Way (DNA?)
-Understanding and Fixing Your Fic Based on Critique
-Big Boo-boos and How to Fix Them (PMJ) ROUGH DRAFT COMPLETE!
-When to know to Start Over on a Fic (Crystal Hikara)
-We May All Be Wrong!
Click to expand...

Edit: putting these links in as I find them
How to Critique a Fanfic
How to Fix a Story Outline
The Fictional Camera
The Fictional Camera; Final Draft
How to Avoid Plotholes (rough draft?)
Canon vs. Non-Canon
How to Write a Pokemon Battle
Description and You: How much Fluff is Too Much?
Description and You; 2nd Draft
Description and You; 3rd Draft
Making Believable Plots
Types of Fanfiction
Types of Fanfiction; 2nd Draft
Points of View and which is Best for You
How to Write a "Quest" (couldn't think of how best to word it)
Basic Sentence Structure

(personal note: I am done)
 
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Find what you can. If not, again, I'm going to ask Zy if he has the previous things I sent him. Likewise, if you come across things I posted before (all one or two anyways), just leave them. I have retained the drafts of those on my laptop. I'll take sign-ups for this project via PM only, but don't ask to be assigned to any one topic yet because I'd like to just get a head-count before starting work on this again.
 
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Yeah I'm not terribly sure how well my entry for the contest is going. I'm at about 250 words right now...but I'm not sure it's something that many people will like. You know what I mean?
 
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Thanks, DNA. I'd have done it, but I didn't have a chance to get to my library today.
 
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Minor announcement on what I'll be doing regarding the guide: Later today I may be submitting a proposal to SR to get permission for this and see if he could advertise that I'll be taking sign-ups for this project by the weekend or sometime soon. If I get an okay, I might start an actual thread for sign-ups, article assignments, and draft/proofreading. Any sections that haven't already been written up beforehand will be open for anyone to volunteer to write about. This may be a long term project and I'm hoping we can pull it off, but problems arise or people start fighting with each other (or, worse, me), I'll shutdown the project without notice.

Just remember, this is all if I can get permission to begin with. A lot of collab works have had a history of failing terribly here (i.e. The Cerulean, the previous attempt at this that never came to fruition, amongst others I'm sure).
 
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To my knowledge, it was just discontinued because the submission quality was terrible and people didn't keep up with getting their work in on-time. There haven't been any mentionings of the S-Mods reviving it either...
 
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That seems to what happens to most Collab works....
We all just need to get dedicated, and do our work...
Then it should come back, and if it does, we just need to set a specific deadline, and Apollo can warn people for crappy posts, and not getting work in on time...
 
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[Question]

Are we allowed to post non-Pokemon related works one here, or is it strictly Pokemon?
 
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No, not at all! TBH, it's usually not Pokemon stuff I see around the Writer's Corner. I usually see fan-fics of Pokebeach characters and stuff, but feel free to post whatever you want! Of course, by "whatever," I mean "Read the rules and check your writing for any possible form of inappropriateness.
 
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