History Webanimation / TerribleWritingAdvice

* EvilChancellor: One of the archetypes discussed in "Fantasy Characters". The profile also discourages playing with this trope, like making him the OnlySaneMan keeping the royal court from collapsing on itself, or having him secretly funding the protagonists.

* SavingTheWorld: Encouraged in "Plotting a Story". He recommends to add the stakes of saving the world suddenly.

** Discussed in in ''Plotting a story''. J.P. suggests to abort a side plot long after it has overshadowed the main plot.

* WingdingEyes: Dead characters are depicted with their eyes replaced with X.

* AbortedArc: Discussed in in ''Plotting a story''. J.P. suggests to abort a side plot long after it has overshadowed the main plot.

* PairTheSpares: Invoked in "Love Interests" and "Ending a Story". JP suggests that every side character besides the OfficialCouple should be paired with another side character, regardless of whether the two had any chemistry or even interacted at all beforehand.

* ShipToShipCombat: [[invoked]]Discussed at the end of ''War Stories'', when the narrator reminds his audience that no genre is save from the Love Triangle, and that fans take shipping as seriously as war.
** This is also the recommended approach to dealing with rival ships in ''Shipping''.

* LastMinuteHookup: In "Character Development" episode, it was suggested to resolve the romance only at the end for more tension.

* InfoDump: A frequently suggested device by Beaubien.
** In "Character Development", the easiest way to start CharacterDevelopment is to infodump their BackStory during their introduction.
--->'''Beaubien:''' We may have just met this character, but they will not ''hesitate'' to spill their entire back story to complete strangers who did not even ask!
** It's the central focus of "Exposition", and JP talks about the "best" ways to put an infodump in your story.
** In "Smart Characters", JP states that a Smart Character is the perfect tool for delivering massive infodumps.
** In "Beginning a Story", JP highly recommends Infodump to begin a story, even if the information is not relevant after the intro.

* InfoDump:

* WriteWhoYouKnow: Invoked in "Magic Schools" where he suggests making TheBully a caricature of someone the author knows in real life.

* ArabOilFatigue:

* AllJustADream: The instance of SincerityMode in "Ending A Story" ends up being this, with JP freaking out at the thought of giving people actual good advice. Then he suggests a story being a dream to be great way to end a story, as long as the characters won't learn enything from the dream.

** In "Mentors" episode, JP suggests having mentor train the protagonist only because the prophecy says so, rather than seeing potential of the protagonist.

** In general, the series could be summarized under the sole advice of "give in to CreatorsApathy as much as you can", as recurring advice include "only use clichés already seen for a million times", "never try to deepen your setting by exploring causes, consequences, and implications of the universe", "all characters should be flat, except for the protagonist and ''maybe'' the big bad", "focus on writing action scenes, InfoDump, or DescriptionPorn at the expense of subtly fleshing out your setting", "tell don't show"...[[invoked]]

* PublicDomainSoundtrack: "Monkeys Spinning Monkeys",a royalty free song, is heard commonly throughout the series.

* SuddenSoundtrackStop: Usually, the background music stops while JP delivers a final sentence of the episode to let that sentence sink in.

** A common gag is to take a common cliche or plot device, then point out that with a little thought, you could come up with an interesting story to justify that cliche or play it in a new fashion, revealing that it actually has a lot of mileage and is just often used poorly... and then he tells you to not do that, and instead play all its worst aspects straight. For instance, in his video on comic relief characters, he notes that despite the archetype's habit of being loathsome, they can easily justify their presence with a solid development arc, show off that they're actually vital members of the cast, or contrast with the protagonist in a meaningful way... or they can just say the same annoying catchphrase over and over again, which is much easier.

** In "Mentors" episode, JP suggests having mentor train the protagonist not because the prophecy says so.

* BigNo: He does one at the end of the ''Star Wars'' video when he's told that he forgot one major ''Star Wars'' cliché.

* TheChosenOne: Dedicates a whole video to this trope.