This is a reaction to the brilliant help fics written by those great people all over the fan fic community. This is a guide of exactly how NOT to write anything. I suppose it wouldn't even be any use if you wanted to write a really terrible fic. But I suppose it's a bit of fun. So, here it is... Jim Moore's AntiMotivational Guide to... Writing a (Tenchi) Fan Fic!!! 1. First, before anything else, make a pact with Satan. This should lead to inspired, brilliant fics such as 'Extremely Sick Sex Fest' (no offence to AAA PhuckNutt, but it's the most negatively MSTed fic on the whole archive!). Making this kind of demonic pact is easy, and you can find instructions for it along with dietry magazines in any local supermarket. 2. Read through other people's fics- you never know what incredible ideas you could steal! 3. Before posting a single regular fic, narrow down competetion by cruelly spitting venom in some e-mails and MSTs to break the morale of those fic writers who could pose a problem by, say, being competant. 4. Come up with some original ideas- your story should have a beginning, a middle and end. Well, a beginning anyway. The rest is sort of optional...you can have it simply trail off into obscenities and meaningless sentences. Be sure to solve all your loose ends- whether you have any or not. Remember- if Ryoko gets Tenchi, Aeka must die horribly, try to kill them both or just bugger off, and if Aeka gets Tenchi Ryoko can hang around ad infinitum. If Kiyone or Mihoshi, Sesami, Washu etc. etc. etc. get Tenchi then be prepared for viscious mail- there are no conventions in this kind of thing. Remember the 'Double O' rule- have all charaters acting either OOT (with Mihoshi as a retarted bimbo, Ayeka as an S & M freak, Ryoko as an alchoholic thug and Kiyone as the ultra-bitch hypocondriac from hell) or OOC (completely the reverse) 5. Have a memeber of your family or animal (big brothers and rabid dogs are favourite) to constantly nag and threaten you to get the hell on with your fic at all times of day. 6. If you run out of inspiration, go up to a high mountain and chastise yourself with a big stick and a few personal insults. Try critising your weight or looks, and this should scare and humiliate you into writing better fics in future. Dumbass. 7. Smoke pot. If it worked for Eminem and D12, it could work for you!!! (I wrote so many songs, but now I just smoke bongs- but nothing compares to these, blue and yellow purple pills.) 8. Grovel in some e-mails to high places, getting support from them (be sure not to e-mail any of the people you did in point three- this could lead to distress and split personality problems) 9. Add some little embeleshiments to your fic to make it just a little more interesting- like homosexuality, morbid death (to Sakuya is favourite) rape, violence, extra-marital affaires, drugs, murder, racial hatred, blood, rubber trousers, women's viagra, rampant aphrodisiacs, George Bush, carnage, fear, loathing, pretty Sammy's underwear, depravity, nudity, abuse, Vinnie Jones, Howard Stern, dwarf women, Eminem and D12, chainsawing gentials off, nazism, leather boots, cruelty to animals and death! Bwhahahahaha!!!!! Ahahahahaha!!! Hahahahah!!! *Snort, spit, insane laughter* 10. Post your fics with little footnotes to the effect that you love everyone on the TMFFA and you would never dare do things like, say- make pacts with Satan, steal people's ideas or any of the above. Well, there it was. Oh, and by the way... I love everyone of the TMFFA!!!! And I would NEVER make a pact with Satan. Not when Beelzebub offers such good deals. Yrs. Jim 'Diabolo' Moore '01