Wattpad Block Party - Winter Edition III

eosophobic presents: Fantastic Parrots and Where to Find Them

eosophobic presents: Fantastic Parrots and Where to Find Them

Hello, weary traveler! Welcome to Parrotopia. Please, mind the parrots – they're friendly most of the time, but they have the tendency to swarm newcomers with bright neon colors that can lead to hypnosis, nausea, hallucinations, blindness, and even death. If these parrots cause you to experience death, please contact your local doctor.

I accidentally left the portal to Parrotopia open last night, and a handful of parrots managed to escape and hide in the graphic and writing tips below! The first one to find a bird-related pun by commenting what the pun is will be PMed by me and will receive a free prize, including a reading list add, comment, icon, or a typography of a short quote!

After taking inventory, I have tallied up the number of parrots that have escaped: five of them! If you're the first to find all five puns, you get a free premade or blend/banner/typography graphic!

Are you ready? Let's go!

1. For descriptions, it doesn't matter if your vocabulary is rather fowl. In fact, overusing complex words isn't the best way to write any kind of fiction. Describing something generally requires interesting or descriptive words (AKA no synonyms of good or bad), but not necessarily SAT-level ones.

2. Remember, no one is born with an inheront understanding of Photoshop, Pixlr, Gimp, Picmonkey, or whatever graphic software you're starting out with. If you're starting out with graphic design, tutorials are great for learning new techniques and tips you couldn't have learned on your own, and make sure to watch livestreams in the Multimedia Design Club (MDC!) whenever you have the chance. And you can always ask a fellow designer for help; we don't bite J

3. Reading a certain paragraph or even chapter out loud is a great way to check for flow. Flow is a super important aspect of a story and reading your writing out loud is a great way to solidify your writing and remove any hawkward phrasing from it.

4. While making a book cover, always make sure to minimize the graphic then and then to make sure that everything is visible even after Wattpad shrinks it. After all, what's the point in designing a great cover if you can barely read the title, or understand the graphic from the thumbnail? After minimizing and noting what may be hard to see, you can fix whatever problem you may have and it will be that much pheasant for browsers to ogle at.

5. Hooks are becoming increasingly important as readers becoming increasingly impatient. Having a slow start to a story will make readers leave after a couple of paragraphs or pages, even though you know they'll egret it. Hooks are important for the first few chapters and the blurb of a story, just to keep a reader on his/her/its toes – but how do you successfully form a hook? If you could totally over-dramaticize the first chapter of your story and put it into one sentence or two, what would it be? From there, you can backtrack into the events that lead up to the attack, and blah blah blah.

That's it from me! Visit the designerwriters, FANTASCI, or the GuilofGraphics for more designing/writing tips, and don't forget to sign up for my giveaway, where one lucky winner will receive a whole lot of graphic goodness!

Until next time. Farewell!

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