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10Useful terms and concepts about creating works for media.
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12Compare and contrast FanSpeak. See also the {{Creators}} index.
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16* {{Abandonware}}: Software no longer officially sold or supported.
17* ActingInTheDark: Actors aren't told about the nature of the work or their character to prevent it from affecting their performance.
18* AllThereInTheManual: Information not revealed in the work itself is given in official books and documents.
19* AllThereInTheScript: Character names that are only revealed in the script, character designs, or the end credits.
20* {{Applicability}}: The creator(s) encourage the audience to make up their own mind about the theme.
21* AscendedFanon: The fans' interpretations of things become officially canon.
22* AshcanCopy: An adaptation is made when the company's media rights to the original work will soon expire in order to ensure that the company will be able to keep the rights for a while longer.
23* AvoidTheDreadedGRating: A movie includes some profanity or another minor instance of mature content simply to keep the movie from being rated G.
24* CanonWelding: A creator combines their previous works into [[{{Crossover}} one series]].
25* ChekhovsGun: A plot device that isn't significant until later in the story.
26* {{Corpsing}}: An actor ends up breaking character and laughing uncontrollably at something they find funny.
27* CreationMyth: A story regarding the creation of a universe and its inhabitants.
28* CreativeDifferences: When disagreements among those involved in a work lead to a collapse of the collaboration.
29* CreatorBacklash: The creators are ashamed that they ever made the work.
30* CrossThrough: A StoryArc that affects multiple different series, but they don't crossover.
31* DevelopmentGag: The work references a concept from when the work was still in development.
32* DiscretionShot: Something is {{implied}} to happen but the camera/narration doesn't show it.
33* EmotionalTorque: The capacity of a story to elicit emotion from its audience.
34* EnforcedMethodActing: Using techniques and conditions to force a genuine reaction from the actor.
35* FanworkBan: The creator forbids fan-made content of their work being made.
36* JustForFun/FightsCrimeWithX: Crime-solving with a unique gimmick to help the work stand out amongst other similar works.
37* FirstLawOfResurrection: If a character is killed off, they'll come back as long as the creator wants them to.
38* Front13Back9: The season starts with 13 episodes which are ordered, then the next 9 will air and be ordered later.
39* FullyAbsorbedFinale: A show that didn't get a GrandFinale has the loose ends tied up by having an episode of a spin-off series or another work taking place in the same continuity serve as a final episode of sorts to the series that ended without a proper conclusion.
40* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Every episode is named in the same way.
41* IdiosyncraticWipes: Using unusual {{wipe}}s, {{dissolve}}s, or otherwise strange scene transitions.
42* IJustWriteTheThing: Yes, they write the plot, but in their minds, they have very little control over the finer details of the story.
43* InspirationForTheWork: The creator(s) reveal how they came up with the work.
44* MagicFranchiseWord: An uncommon word gets associated with the work that used it.
45* MagnumOpus: A creator/character's most ambitious and laborious creative undertaking.
46* MagnumOpusDissonance: Creator and audience disagree on what's the former's best work.
47* MassiveMultiplayerCrossover: A {{Crossover}} between three or more continuities you'd never think would ever meet.
48* MethodActing: Trying to think like the character, rather than simply act like the character.
49* {{Mythopoeia}}: A fictional mythology for a fictional world.
50* NoHuggingNoKissing: There's no sexuality or romance in a work.
51* OneEpisodeWonder: A television show that ended after just one episode.
52* OpeningShoutOut: The opening sequence is ReferencedBy a character InUniverse.
53* OrphanedReference: The final work contains references to a concept or scene that was scrapped from an earlier draft.
54* ParentalBonus: A work features content and references that only older viewers will notice or understand.
55* PilotMovie: A feature-length film that is intended to serve as the beginning of a television series.
56* PlotBunny: An story idea is very persistent in the creator's mind or breeds more ideas.
57* PoorlyDisguisedPilot: An episode of a television show focuses on a different set of characters to serve as a possible pilot for a spin-off series.
58* ProductionNickname: The creator(s) give their work (or one of its elements) a nickname.
59* {{Prop}}: Something an actor holds or physically interacts with in a production.
60* RuleOfPerception: As far as the audience is concerned, if you can't perceive it, it doesn't exist.
61* SameContentDifferentRating: A new installment or a re-release has a different rating with little change in content.
62* SchrodingersGun: Anything not yet explicitly revealed can be seamlessly {{retcon}}ned, with the viewer none the wiser.
63* ShoutOut: A work makes a reference to another work.
64* SimultaneousArcs: Two or more different stories take place at the same time as each other.
65* StylisticSuck: A work is deliberately made to be of poor quality.
66* TravelingAtTheSpeedOfPlot: Any vehicle travels as fast or as slowly as the plot demands.
67* TroubledProduction: A work has endured a lot of problems in development despite eventually being finished and released.
68* VillainBasedFranchise: The villain's the star of the franchise.
69* WorldBuilding: The act of constructing a fictional world.
70* WriteWhatYouKnow: The creator bases the story on their own experiences.
71* WriteWhoYouHate: The creator bases a character on a RealLife person the author hates or hated.
72* WriteWhoYouKnow: The creator bases a character on a RealLife person the author knows or knew.
73* WritingAroundTrademarks: Lawsuits are avoided by never mentioning copyrighted material directly by name.
74* WunzaPlot: One is an A. One is a B. They do C.
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