Literature Deviation Tutorial by AsjJohnson, literature
Literature
Literature Deviation Tutorial
dA Literature Tutorial: reading and submitting
Reading Literature on DeviantART
Each literature deviation is displayed within a box (there may also be a preview image displayed above it). The first line in this box is always the deviation title, as a first-level heading. The second line has the word "by" followed by the author's username (as a link). The rest of the deviation has been written by the author.
At the top, right-hand corner of a literature deviation, you may see five buttons, depending on the category. These buttons will be my main focus for this part of the tutorial.
(at the moment, I think the categories are a bit buggy - a
My Guide To Writing WG stories by FuzzyNecromancer, journal
My Guide To Writing WG stories
(Note: The following is copied from the PAWG message boards.)
Many people who come to pawg do not have much prior writing experience. In fact, many people who post their stories appear to have not previously written anything longer than an introduction thread. Because I wish to guide people in the writing of prose without having to individually comment on each thread, I've taken the liberty of creating this guide to writing stories.
The first important point of good writing is
>>>SPELLING AND GRAMMAR
The Good Critic's Guide:
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I. Introduction:
I have noticed that many critics on DA tend to leave rather harsh and sometimes subjective critiques on the pages of the artists being critiqued. Their rationale for doing so is based on the concept that 'we shouldn't molly-coddle each other and instead "tell it like it is"'. However this type of critique reflects poorly on one who is critiquing as opposed to the one who is being critiqued and I will explain why throughout the course of this guide. In essence I hope to use this resource as a way of teaching potential critics how to properly focus their abilities and direct their critiques in a
General expansion tips by ExpansionWriters, literature
Literature
General expansion tips
General expansion tips
In this I will try to go over all of the necessary elements of an expansion story. The required parts of a good expansion story are:
Means of expansion. How and why does the expansion occur? Dont just put all of the sudden she started growing and expect it to work. The explanation of the reason for the expansion can come whenever as long as its there. Its best to be as thorough as possible when describing the reason of the expansion to completely eliminate any chance people wont get it. Possible means include magic, potions, air tanks, special powers, or if you have no ideas, use a spec
Writing Tips - Grammar, pt 2 by ML-Larson, literature
Literature
Writing Tips - Grammar, pt 2
Part two: Tense of the Narrative, and Plural and Singular Nouns
Tenses: No, were not talking about a hard day at work, but rather verb tenses. What, basically, is the time-direction of your narrative? Is the chronicler telling about something that has already happening, is happening, or will eventually happen?
In most works of fiction, the narrative is in past tense. Its already happened. Occasionally, youll find a book in present tense its happening now, as youre reading it and these are usually of the pick your own adventure sort. The ones where you dont
Writing Tips - Grammar, pt 3 by ML-Larson, literature
Literature
Writing Tips - Grammar, pt 3
Part three: Cases and Grammar Nazi Nit-Picks
Cases
Cases are, in a sort, ways of conjugating a noun that is, defining its role in a sentence. Kind of. Not really. Well, sort of. Its a bit swimmy, because we dont really have them in the English language. Well, thats a lie. We do, but theyre not very prominent. Despite this, were going over them anyway. Why? Because theyre big in some foreign languages and extinct languages. Why do we care? Because there will be a lesson on foreign and extinct languages in the future. But dont worry; we will cross that bridge when we come to it. Those who could
dA Guide: Text Formatting by SweetDuke, literature
Literature
dA Guide: Text Formatting
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UPDATE for January 2020:
I created this guide in 2011, so you'll have to take it with a grain of salt since dA has updated a bazillion things since then LOL. It now looks like many codes don't work in Literature submissions anymore, (or disable the "Eclipse" version of the site and show the old site instead), so some of the demonstrations here only look like regular text. But they should display properly if you copy/paste them in the comments. I'm so glad to see how many of you wonderful people still utilize this resource, so I wish you the best and encourage you to go ahead and experiment to see what works and what do
Using HTML on deviantART by ScarletteDeath, journal
Using HTML on deviantART
Hello!
Hello and welcome to my little html tutorial. I've been working with html codes for a couple of years and I'm going to teach you what I know about using some basic html on deviantART. This won't make you a html expert or something and I'm not an expert myself but it will give just enough knowledge to make your journals, comments, news articles and other neat and lovely looking. :)
deviantART actually has FAQs about html but I still wanted to do this because they look a bit unorganized, in my opinion. Also, why would you want to look for those FAQs when you can just open this news article where you have everything in one place? :dummy