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So You Want To See The Index Discussion
The following entries were zapped for being suggestions on the main page. No objections to that, but I'm listing them here because...well, because the discussion page is where suggestions belong.
- So You Want To Write An Adventure Story
- So You Want To Write An Animated Comedy (The Simpsons, Family Guy, King Of The Hill, etc.)
- So You Want To Write An Animated Movie (Disney, Don Bluth, etc.)
- So You Want To Write A Bestseller
- So You Want To Write A Choose Your Own Adventure
- So You Want To Write A Christmas Story
- So You Want To Write A Dark Fantasy
- So You Want To Write An Educational Cartoon
- So You Want To Write A Fighting Game
- So You Want To Write A Hentai OVA
- So You Want To Write A Heroic Bloodshed Movie
- So You Want To Write A High School Sitcom
- So You Want To Write A Hispanic Style Soap Opera
- So You Want To Write A Horror Game
- So You Want To Write An Interactive Fiction
- So You Want To Write A Narrative or Epic Poem
- So You Want To Write A Pirate Story
- So You Want To Write A Police Procedural
- So You Want To Write A Rock Opera
- So You Want To Write A Satire
- So You Want To Write A Screwball Comedy
- So You Want To Write A Sentai Show
- So You Want To Write A Short Story
- So You Want To Write A Side-Scrolling Platformer (Mario)
- So You Want To Write A Space Fighters Series
- So You Want To Write A Space Western
- So You Want To Write A Sprite Comic
- So You Want To Write A Space Opera
- So You Want To Write A Shoujo Series
- So You Want To Write A Steampunk Story
- So You Want To Write A Thriller
- So You Want To Write A Spy Thriller
- So You Want To Write A Time Travelogue
- So You Want To Write A Trailer
- So You Want To Write An Urban Legend
- So You Want To Write A Visual Novel
- So You Want To Write A Webtoon
- So You Want To Write a Plot-ful Shonen-ai/Yaoi Story
- So You Want To Write A War Movie
- So You Want to Write An Adventure Game
- So You Want To Be original.
- So You Want to Write A Climactic Battle
- So You Want to Write A Clip Show
- So You Want to Write A Death
- So You Want to Write A Dream Sequence
- So You Want to Write A Pilot Episode
- So You Want to Write A Wedding
Alright, so over the last three hours I have made some significant changes to this page. It's taken ten edits (the last was just for a single typo...) but it's done! Here's an overview of what I did:
- Completely reorganized the Suggestions Section. All suggestions are now in separate categories- the same ones as the existing article, in order of appearance, and all alphabetized- with most (some were existing articles by this time) of the suggestions in the first Discussion post added. It should now seem more streamlined even though there are many new ones from that post. I combined a few like Pick Your Own Adventure and Choose Your Own Adventure, discarded some like Spy Thriller- we already had Spy Fiction- and the like, but I have not actually added any suggestions of my own (well, not since the three I added months ago anyway). I made a Word document that included all works in the suggestions area as well as those in the Discussion post to help me organize and arrange things, and I've made sure to not miss anything. If it seems like I skipped something, it was either an existing page or able to be merged with another suggestion. I did not strike any out of personal taste. There were a few renames as well such as changing "Write An Animated Movie (Disney, Don Bluth, etc.)" to "Write A Children's Animated Movie" as it says what the other does without needing examples.
- To accommodate a decent portion of suggestions I have actually made two new categories for the main article.
- Creator Jobs
- I added this as there were several suggestions such as "Cast A Hollywood Blockbuster" or "Be An Animator" that didn't really fit anywhere else. They wouldn't really belong in the famous creators section, so I made a new one specifically for people who want to pursue these types of jobs/careers. The only one already written is "Be A Booker" but there are a few in the suggestions area, so please write those to supplement it. Those articles should detail the duties of such a job and preferably also how to get them. Some, like "Cast A Hollywood Blockbuster" imply you already have it; add how to get it anyway, while still detailing the best advice on what to do once the job is already attained that you can think of.
- Story Aspects, Scenes and Large Ideas
- I added this one at the very end because I realized about 2/3 through this task that there were about ten (actually eleven upon reviewing) suggestions that STILL wouldn't fit anywhere else. Many of these came from the Discussion post, but some were already in the article. These suggestions were for parts of a story that wouldn't fit in the genre section because they were too narrow; they didn't fit as entire genres OR they were too broad, like Deconstructions. The broad ones weren't confined to a specific genre, yet they were still good ideas for articles in the index. It's nice to have a decent guide to writing a Spiritual Sequel or a Deconstruction. Yet they still didn't fit as "basics" at the top of the article. I was originally going to separate these "too narrow" and "too broad" suggestions into two articles, but I felt that we've already got plenty of sections as is and I'm adding more already. In the end I figured it would work to shoehorn these into a "Just don't really fit into the basics or genres sections but still have to do with plotting." article. Notice there aren't any character suggestions in the section given; it's for plot, theme, and dealing with tropes themselves (like Deconstructions). Currently there isn't a single finished article in the section; I decided to put it in the main area anyway so people would know what that break in the suggestions area was, and also because I feel it really would be useful. As there are no existing pages here yet, please make this (and the other new section with one article) your top priority.