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astroorion
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Chef
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If you're looking for someone to tell you what to write or what to do, that's kind of less an offer of helping the community and more asking someone to coach you lol. | ||
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Heyoka
Katowice25012 Posts
My advice is to write things, post them, work on refining your craft, and see where it goes! Being self motivated is one of the key aspects, if you are in the habit of writing fun things consistently that gives us little reason to say you can't help us on a more official level. | ||
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astroorion
United States1022 Posts
On December 19 2010 06:11 Chef wrote: Just write whatever you want about anything. If you do it regularly and you do it fairly well, you'll probably get asked to do a feature. If you do it infrequently you'll become me. If you're looking for someone to tell you what to write or what to do, that's kind of less an offer of helping the community and more asking someone to coach you lol. I know I'm young, I want to have a foundation for when i am older and more fit for the job | ||
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emythrel
United Kingdom2599 Posts
I have had a couple of articles published in local newspapers and some music related media sites, I am currently writing a sci-fi novel and it's really hard work!!!!! My best piece of advice has been gained through many years of my own experience and the recieved wisdom of other writers and musicians and it is very simple: Haters gonna hate, don't let people get you down. Unless they are an english professor, professional writer, editor, agent or otherwise well versed in what makes good writing their opinion is just that, an opinion. Even those who do know what they are talking about can be wrong. Criticism is great, even from people who don't know the first thing about writing, but you shouldn't ever let someone with no clue stop you from writing. Write because you love doing it and you will always find an audience, write what you know and don't be afraid to fail. Ok that was a little less simple than i thought it would be, but still some sage advice. None the writers you admire were afraid of what people might think about their writing. | ||
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sc2lime
Canada513 Posts
On December 19 2010 06:19 heyoka wrote: Generally speaking, we ask people to help us write when we see them creating things for the forum on their own. Xxio wrote Lambs to Lions and posted it as a thread, Riptide saw it and said "this guy is pretty good lets keep an eye on him" (it was later turned into a TLFE because its awesome). Lovedrop was asked to help with GSL because he started doing his own updates and he was a good fit for our news team. Snowdrift and flamewheel were asked to help us with PL writing last year because they had some pieces we liked around the time we were looking to expand the team. I got involved in TL writing because I was keeping a big spreadsheet of proleague results right as someone was needed to do official tallies of tournaments. My advice is to write things, post them, work on refining your craft, and see where it goes! Being self motivated is one of the key aspects, if you are in the habit of writing fun things consistently that gives us little reason to say you can't help us on a more official level. Wow he wrote that on his own even though he wasn't a staff yet? Great work. I loved that article. It had great coverage and was very well written. | ||
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SlimeBagly
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