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Writing tip:
          
          Dialogue! Each line of dialogue must, MUST reflect each character's different personalities. Like, if you skim through each line without saying explicitly who is talking, you should be able to more or less get an idea of who's who.

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Zelda theory!
          
          Oh boy. My second theory here, and I'm already diving into the timeline split. Oh, well. Let's go!
          
          Huge spoiler for Ocarina of Time, by the way.
          
          What in the name of Hylia is Guru Guru?
          
          So in oot, you all know the song of storms man, at the windmill. I haven't ever played oot, so I'm not sure how exactly this works, but as an adult, you can learn the song of storms off him, and then go back 7 years and teach it back to him.
          
          Okay. What?
          
          Pulling the Master Sword created the adult/child timeline split, if I have my facts straight (or was it the ocarina? In theory, it should work in the same way, so it checks out, I suppose). But if you go into the adult timeline and learn the song of storms, then go to an ALTERNATE timeline and teach it back, then it shouldn't affect the future timeline, right?
          
          This completely topples the timeline theory. This means that what you do in the past timeline DOES in fact change the future timeline.
          
          Which means Link's pulling the Master Sword is just him going back and forth in the SAME timeline, not two separate ones. Which means that there are no three timelines. Only TWO.
          
          Or am I just being dumb? If this is really a problem, I'm pretty sure that the professional theorizers would have already covered it. Feel free to discuss your thoughts on this matter by replying! :)

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Okay, so I spent a lot of time thinking about it, and I am back with more explanations.
            
            Guru Guru appears in MM (child timeline) KNOWING the Song of Storms (I'm pretty sure), which means that Link DID teach him this song in the CHILD timeline. So OoT has to be in the CHILD timeline, and that makes sense.
            
            The Song of Storms also appears in the Oracle of Seasons (or the other one, idek anymore), presumably played by Guru Guru as well. Oracle of Seasons is from the downfall timeline. Which means, that from what I know, the adult timeline is the only timeline WITHOUT the Song of Storms, and the only timeline WITHOUT the Hero. Which does make sense.
            
            But why did Link pulling the Master Sword NOT split the timeline?
            
            What Link does as a child DOES affect what happens with him as an adult. Why? Time travel is all about splitting timelines. What really should happen with Guru Guru is Link stays as a child, without Master Sword, waits 7 years, and then goes back to visit Guru Guru to learn back the Song of Storms.
            
            The thing is, when Link spends time as a child, time also passes SEVEN YEARS LATER. Which is kinda proof that there's something funny going on here, with the splitting timelines. Because pulling the Master Sword, in my opinion, DID split the timeline, because it technically IS time travel. 
            
            If pulling the Master Sword didn't split the timeline, then how did the Ocarina split it? They kinda work similarly. 
            
            So now I've gone and tangled up this matter even more :P
            
            Please let me know what you guys think!
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This is something really interesting I noticed in BotW
          
          So you all know Mipha, the fish girl. And her theme.
          
          One day I was singing her theme in a set of music system called Solfege syllables. Solfege is basically like do re mi. In case you didn't know, in a scale of C Major, the C would be do, the D would be re, the E mi, the F fa, the G sol, the A la, the B ti, and back to C do.
          
          So if you convert Mipha's theme to solfege, you get this:
          
          E, F, E, F, E, F, E
          
          mi, fa, mi, fa, mi, fa, mi.
          
          Sound familiar?
          
          So the beginning of her theme is basically saying her name over and over again.
          
          I just find this really pretty cool. BotW is full of hidden little secrets :)

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Writing tip:
          Good grammar and spelling and all that is very, very important for the quality of your story. 
          
          I've read a few fanfics with kinda bad spelling, and even though the story is good enough, it just took too much away. Proper language and better use of words enhances your writing more than you might think. It just improves everything so much, the professionality, the ease of reading, just the general appearance. 
          
          Also, never write a huge block of text for your readers to struggle through unless absolutely necessary. Break it up into smaller paragraphs to make it easier for them to read it without a terrible headache.
          
          That's it! Bye!

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BotW theory! A slight spoiler for the story.
          
          What if Ganon's malice has time-stopping/slowing qualities?
          
          Think about it. Zelda, in the final cutscene, doesn't look like she aged at all. And she's spent the past 100 years in Hyrule Castle, where Ganon's power was the most concentrated. And there is no season change at all in BotW's world, and some players could have totally spent years in this world, using game's time mechanics. That strikes me as suspicious. Like, I know that this is maybe just because of game limitations, but I'm not considering this world game-wise in this theory. 
          
          And that can also potentially explain why food in BotW have healing properties. What if, to adapt to the lack of season change, they evolved to still survive as well as they ever did, and that resulted in some side effect that allowed them to heal people, like Link, or maybe exclusively Link with his body enhanced with the Triforce of Courage? 
          
          There's something here, that's for sure. And I apologize if someone had proposed the same theory somewhere else, but if they did, then I never saw it.
          
          See you all!

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Writing tip: 
          Never, never, never plan out your story chapter by chapter! Of course, it's perfectly good to think about your storyline before actually starting your story, but you should let the story carry you along, creating twists and introducing concepts that may even surprise you!
          By planning out every single chapter, one by one, you restrict yourself and not let your story grow from the box you set. And it may create a more orderly, better rhythmed story, but as a smaller writer, it loses the charm that comes with impromptu scenes and characters.
          This is just my opinion, but I found that it helped a lot with one of my longest, most tiring stories.
          Thanks, peeps, and see ya!

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Hey! It's ME!
          
          So what I'm gonna do with this club for y'all is just posting random tidbits, like writing tips, Zelda story ideas, and theories that I come up with at the stroke of midnight. If there's anything interesting that crossed my mind, I'll post it here. Updating for me isn't really periodical, so check in once in a while to see what crazy things my mind had conjured up for you guys!
          
          Peace out and thanks, everyone!