Tutorial - So You Want to Break People's Brains?

by jantalaimon and m31andy

So, yeah, we do get that the brain-breakage tutorial requests both of us received were rather tongue-in-cheek, but it's Janni and Andy here and one thing that should be evident by now is that we both cannot resist a challenge.

To that end, therefore, may we present ( So you want to break people's brains? )

So, being the community slut polygraphicous, I thought I might entertain you with a few of my thoughts on collaborative writing. What it is, why you should do it and a few pointers on the mechanics (for mikes_grrl especially. And I'm only mentioning that so I can make the Mikey's Mechanics joke here!)

Okay. Moving swiftly on…

( Collaboration's What You Need… )

So...for what it's worth, here's a few tips on thinking up/working out backstory for characters. I hope it helps!

Follow the fake!cut to my LJ. And forgive me if it's no good. Been a long time since I wrote anything that wasn't fic!!

( Backstory. They've got it, you want it. )

I’ve only been writing fic for just over a year as of a couple weeks back, but the first thing I ever wrote was filthy, explicit, out-and-out porn ( Balance, for the Anonymous Pornfest), and whilst I’ve tried to mix it up a bit in the time and stories since, I remain pretty predictably a purveyor of smut, usually of the Sam/Gene variety ( Read more... )

Okay, FINE. Here it is: my tutorial on how to make “out there” kinks believable, as requested. The starting point for this tutorial is that you want to write a kink/fetish in a realistic fashion; otherwise you are writing crack!fic, and all power to you, but I can’t help there because my crack!fic-fu is weak. :) Just so you know, this essay de ( Read more... )

I suggest it was Colonel Rochester in the laundry with the frying pan, AKA; so you want to write a crime procedural ( Read more... )

I am here to pontificate, by request, on writing long fic in LoM. Because, alas, no one seems interested in what makes plushie!love work. (It’s okay, Tufty, Sam still loves you…)

How helpful is this going to be to you? Probably not much...

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Back in January when Loz requested that we write some LoM discussion pieces/tutorials I didn't really think I'd be able to contribute anything.  However, after giving it a bit of thought, well this is what my twisted little brain came up with - The Slasher's Guide to the Life on Mars Car.  I'm no expert on cars - far from it - so this is just a ( Read more... )

So you're a fan of Life on Mars, right ( Read more... )

Here's a tutorial for you guys about making icons, this is also a very subjective area, but I'll just share what I know and maybe get some of you guys started making epic LOM iconage.
The program I'm using is of course Photoshop CS2


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