The Guide to Email Success/Bluebry
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—Advanced tips—
I am not going to tell you how to spell things right and follow the rules. There are other things for that.
Instead, I'll just tell you what's bad. As one of the contributors for Mystery Fanstuff Theater 3000, I've seen a lot of bad everything, to the point that I don't even know what's good anymore. But I certainly know what's terrible, and I can help you avoid that.
Do you have to follow this? No. These are just my own personal recommendations. I don't care if you agree with them or not.
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—On Popular Culture References—
Some rules you should follow on popular culture references:
- Make sure it's relevant five months from now.
- Make sure most people know what you're talking about.
- If you have to link to something, scrap it all.
- When someone just listens to some random song by a band you like (or hate) with no relation to plot, that's not a reference. That's just a bad plug and bad writing.
—A Further Exploration of the Definition of "Reference"—
Do not add in characters from movies or television shows or video games or whatever.
(Unless it's like a crossover or something).
These would not be references.
It's just really, really bad. I don't care about some yellow Sonic with the power to fly or whatever. It's just bad.
—On Original Characters—
There are three basic questions you should ask about original characters:
- Are they like {popular video game/movie/TV character}, but a bit different?
- Are they you?
- Are they perfect?
If you answered yes to any of these, redo it until you can answer "no" to all of them.
—On Female Original Characters—
Don't make them sassy, and don't make them clean up the messes of the less-intelligent men.
That's cliché.
Women are people too: just give them any normal personality you would give to a guy.
