The Guide to Email Success/NachoMan Tips
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Have you ever asked yourself, "How do I make a good email show without tearing out my own brain stem and beating it with a stick?!" Or are you just so bored that you came to read this? Either way, sit back, relax, and prepair to experience the fury of, me telling you a guide to email success...pfft.
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Transcription Standards
- Most people don't read them, or if they do, they skim it, and creat a piece of crap. LEARN THE STANDARDS! It may be a pain in the butt to folow all those rules, but it's worth it! People enjoy work when it's nicely made. Compare these:
Bad Transcript
Jaro; Helo! i here tto check my email!1 Dear Jaro I like Pie Kevin!
Jareo: You like pi!>? I my pie do i!(gurndy runs up)
Grundy: Lets eart pie@@
)the paper)
Good Transcript
JARO: Hello! I am here to check my email!
Dear Jaro,
I like Pie
Kevin!
JARO: You like pie!? I like pie too!
{Grundy runs up.}
GRUNDY: Let's eat pie!!
{The Paper}
Humor
Referencial Humor
This is the worst kind of humor. You know, when you use cameos and stuff, just to make a joke, or worse, start a plot with. NEVER DO THAT EVER PLEVER. Not everyone knows the character you're using, and will get confused thinking that you made up the character. Before I got an account I used to read the Ungurait Emails alot (I still read um' but not as much.). I read an email with Evil and Elly, and I didn't know who the crap they were! Don't reference. Use own characters. Get me a bagle.
Random Humor
Tossing out random stuff, is an excellenct source of humor. Although, don't be so random as to be completley crazy and make no sense. You wouldn't see this in a non-Homsar email.
CHORCH: MASHED POTATOE ALIGATORS!!!
JARO: That's nice. We're going to have the nice man take you to your soft room.
??? Humor
I couldn't decide what to call this one. This humor, is the Calvin and Hobbes type humor. The kind where characters evolve over time, and use their personalities to create humor on different subjects. Aim for this humor.
Feeling
Not many email shows have feeling. By that, I don't mean that there's not enough effort, but that the characters themselves talk like robots!! Yes, I have seen shows like this.
STINKOMAN: {gets hit by laser} Gaa. I'm dead.
CAPS LOCK, BIG and small and bolded' and italic'd make good emotion, along with punctuation.
STINKOMAN: {gets hit by laser} GAA! I'm so tottaly dead!! *death*
Remember, the "E" is for Effort!
Email Specials
- Email specials are times when your email show celebrates a milestone in the number line. Jaro Emails has a special every ten emails, and HUGE SPECIALS every twenty five. For writting specials, or storylines even, I like to refer to something I call...
=The Twinkey Method
- Twinkeys are big yellow balls of banana goo filled with cream. The way they're made is similar to how you should write an email show.
1. Start with the ingredients - Have your characters and surroundings. 2. Mix them together into a big ol' vat. - Use them to create a storyline that is enjoyable. 3. Slowly create your soft doughy shape. - Create a skeleton of the plot, what goes where, who does what. 4. Begin filling it with creamy filling - Write your email, only putting in actual dialouge and actions in when you start the writing. 5. Add the finishing touches, IE, add bolding, fix spelling, add some jokes and fill plotholes.
You will improve
- Hey, not everyone's perfect. No one starts an email show out completley great, with long hearty emails and jokes. But the more practice you get, the better your writting will become. When I first made this email, I thought it was awesome and cool! But looking back, it's full of plotholes and stupid Bonus Stage references. But unless you are not even caring about the quality of your email show, it could deprove!
Action Sequences
I know nobody who can write good action sequences for the email shows. Mitchell just copies his from transcripts of movies, so he doesn't count. Action sequences are hard because it's hard for you to imagine some people fighting each other without it being in front of you. Without dialouge, these can become boring very fast too. So, try to avoid these as much as possible.
Plot
Know that my email show has gotten really good, I've realized that it's a hassle to write plots. Filling in plotholes and making things fit can be a hassle, and sometimes you won't be pleased with the result.
My OCE is currently in a plot where Jaro and Chorch are stuck in a horrible future while Grundy has a split personality and has been captured by Green Beard and Dark Greggo as they try to become the rulers of the multi-verse.
Gad, what was I thinking?
Personally, I'm trying to get out of this plot ASAP. It's getting annoying with all the fighting and stuff I'm doing. Use plots sparingly.
