History Funny / TerribleWritingAdvice

* JP notes that a lot of isekai stories fall into the HaremGenre, and begins with a grim historical description of harems before realizing that he's reading off his history notes.
* JP demonstrates how shallow the harem cast is by presenting a table with an assortment of physical attributes. Just roll dice to mix-and-match the physical appearance of each character and your harem is done! Personality? They have none other than "is in love with the protagonist."

** He later adds that there is a way to expand on the protagonist's character to make him more sympathetic: by [[HerosSlaveHarem contributing to slavery]]. JP's tone stumbles a bit as he [[WhoWritesThisCrap double-checks his script]].

* When he goes into talking about shipping etiquette and ShipToShipCombat, he sets up a hypothetical example of shippers who are fans for a show made for children. From the way he says "show made for children" you can already tell how much shipping such characters repulses him. And the comments cannot agree on which show he's talking about!

* Now that he's established the characters of a [=LitRPG=] story, he needs a setting, and what better setting than the common Tolkeinesque HighFantasy? Don't worry, it's not a lazy copy-paste, because he's added catgirls!

* On the concept of using the game mechanics in the story, he gleefully tosses aside the brainpower needed to spin them into an interesting story and just uses it because it's cool. The result is a combat log where [[TheGoomba a normal rat]] hits the protagonist for [[DivideByZero an erroneous]] amount of damage that spills out and injures the party, the game world, and the multiverse.

* What if the audience doesn't want a harem? He suggests starting with a small romantic plot before [[RomanticPlotTumor expanding it into a whole harem later in the story.]] This is illustrated by him sneaking a [[Running Gag love triangle]] into a story.

* Now that he's established the characters of a [=LitRPG=] story, he needs a setting, and what better setting than the common Tolkeinesque HighFantasy? Don't worry, it's not a lazy copy-paste, because he's added catgirls! ''[[SarcasmMode "Pushing the originality there!"]]''

* JP's contempt toward the harem trope (yes, it's even found its way into Western [=LitRPGs=]) is made clear, especially when he describes how the UnresolvedRomanticTension stays unresolved either from plot contrivances, or because the VanillaProtagonist has no characterization whatsoever.

!!World building Governments and Politics

* The episode begins with JP getting hit by Truck-kun (a truck with big anime eyes) and waking up with AnimeHair.

* The second thing the video establishes, after the setting (take the modern world and slap on some magic), is the LoveTriangle. And of course, it doesn't even hide that it's taking a potshot at ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'', as the first two possible suitor choices are vampires and werewolves, while gleefully tossing aside the usual flaws that each mythical creature type would suffer from.

!!Worldbuilding Governments and Politics

* With writing the beginning, he notes a strange trend of [[LookBothWays killing the character in his original world via traffic accident]] to set up his reincarnation into the fantasy world, instead of the billion other ways you can establish such a story. The LongList of ideas he brainstorms is something he's done in ''two minutes'', and there's a note saying "Surely isekai writers could have done better if they actually tried?"

* When pondering what to do after [[StuffedIntoTheFridge stuffing a love interest into the fridge]] to start the story, JP suggests reveling in over-the-top grimdark violence and placing it [[ActionPrologue at the beginning of the story]] [[MoodWhiplash even though the rest of the book might be a light-hearted action-adventure tale]]. Since he can't actually ''show'' the violence without getting demonetized by [=YouTube=], he puts up an "[[RelaxOVision unrelated ad saving puppy]]".

* When all else fails and the author risks ''expending effort to write'', he suggests taking an existing template and adding a gimmick to it, such as the protagonist getting to fantasy land [[LightNovel/InAnotherWorldWithMySmartphone with his cellphone!]] That has [[CellPhonesAreUseless no reception]].

* He says that even if the Elite Mooks are effective, they won't appear again after they manage to capture the Hero. This is over a scene of [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender Aang]] being told by an Earth Kingdom soldier that he hasn't seen any [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheBlueSpirit archers]] in the enemy ranks.

!![[RatedMForManly Alpha Heroes]]

* JP almost breaks the character at many points when describing the comic relief character, with a clear disdain in his voice.

!!Fan Fiction {{Original Characters}}

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* JP also illustrates how easy it is to assemble the harem cast by displaying each physical attribute in a table, with instructions to roll dice to determine which combination of physical traits make up the character. As for characterization? They don't have any other than "[[SatelliteLoveInterest is in love with the protagonist]]".

* The isekai protagonist themselves is described as "[[VanillaProtagonist with a character as flat as the loli's chest]]" and "whose nationality and culture is as interchangeable as the cardboard box the Blu-Ray arrives in".

** When all else fails and all other ways to start the plot actually ''take effort to write'', he suggests that the protagonist is simply whisked off to another world! [[LightNovel/InAnotherWorldWithMySmartphone With his cellphone!]] That has [[CellPhonesAreUseless no reception]].

* When a scene that reads like it's from a pornographic work won't do, he instead suggests IkeaErotica or [[MillsAndBoonsProse Purple Prose Porn]].

* When a scene that reads like it's from a pornographic work won't do, he instead suggests IkeaErotica or PurpleProse.