The Cliches of The Loud House
(FYI if this violates the TOS then oh well, guess I'm a rule breaker now. Wouldn't be the first.)
Ever wonder how to rehash the same old road with the kids from the Loud House? Well in this guide I'll show you how to make a popular fan story with the minimal work!
1. The first step to make an effortless story is to watch one of the most hated episodes in the series such as, "No Such Luck." or. "Brawl In The Family." and make all the characters morally reprehensible beyond belief.
2. Paint Lincoln as a perfect angel for a bit and never have him act as anything other than a saint gracing his horrid family with his presence.
3. Or if you want to go off the beaten path you can also make Lincoln an unlikable asshole too so the whole gang is on the same level of likability.
That's only one way too! Since you are after alotta reviews with the minimum amount of creation in making a storyline you can also do this.
1. Make it so that your entire story revolves around answering questions from reviewers using the characters as strawmen.
2. That way you don't even have to focus on grammar or thinking about what your writing as the story shoots up the search engine so when people filter by reviews it's gonna be pretty high up there!
3. Even the most simple story of this format rakes in the reviews with the more boundaries you don't care about breaking with the characters
I'm not done yet! It gets easier from here!
1. Piggyback on the more popular stories on the site such as Requieum of A Loud and write endings for it, because the name alone brings more than a few viewers
2. Make the ending happy and forego the meaning of the story which is moving on and coming to terms with the inevitable.
3. Or do a oneshot from the Future without making a single piece of original story behind it and turn the emotional feels up to ten.
And you can't forget the most popular way of all!
1. Write the most lemon filled incest fix possible! That's what people really want to see, most of the popular fics on this site use 'em, because forget any of the cannon pairings and say fuck all to the fact that the pairings could very well produce a infant full of birth defects.
2. Since the Incest border has been broken we can talk about the harem's which make up for a majority of the more popular stories in the fandom. Because anytime someone pairs Lincoln up with enough siblings to cover the search engine so that most people who gravitate to one of the characters will find one of the characters listed.
3. Also let's even forget about pedophilia and pair up Lincoln with Lori or Leni who both border on adulthood with a character half a decade younger than them, not to mention the blood ties.
4. Honestly, if you want to pander for the most popular story possible then this is the way. Only stories from That Engineer or UnderratedHero beat them out, thankfully since they are what I personally think is some of the best actual storytelling of the fandom. I do hope you check them out if you are perturbed by anything mentioned in here.
One of the lesser known cliches in this fandom.
1. The whole vampire fic thing, it's a bit over used in all honesty. I haven't read one good enough to make me think that they can be something other than a cliche pandering to that crowd.
2. Weird romances come in abundance when dealing with this cliche and it quite honestly just makes me cringe when reading them.
Back with another popular method.
1. Bashing fics, where people write to make some of the characters look as stupid and unlikable as possible without reason.
2. May as well forget all the heart warming times shared between the family because some of the sisters feel like being unlikable that day.
3. Rush to have all the characters realize the error of their ways at the end of the story even though they have done nothing to that point to warrant forgiveness other than admitting a fuck up.
Finally.
1. The Lincoln death mope show is by far other than Incest and hated episodes becoming worse the most overdone thing. They can either spawn out the best out there or they can be for feels and bashing that make the story uncomfortable to read.
2. This doesn't offer anything but the characters being sad for a few chapters, yelling and getting on with life. I haven't seen anything but it in any of them and it is an easy way to get attention without doing anything other than following a formula.
3. Not once have I seen more than a one-shot deal with the death of anyone of the sisters, instead it's always been Lincoln biting the dust because most won't walk down another path which leads to the simple formula.
Some ideas for people looking free to break free of this cycle of cliche storytelling.
1. Maybe for once one of the other sisters are permanently crippled which takes away their talent. An example being Luna losing her voice, Lynn being too injured to ever play sports again. This allows the characters to become people, though use someone other than Lincoln for once.
2. A fiction that is fairly long that focuses on Lincoln trying to find his talent. The few I've seen haven't been very long or were at the end of a story and relatively glossed over.
3. Reversing the cliche of Lincoln doing nothing wrong and have him actually screw up for once and have him deal with the consequences of his misdeeds.
4. Make a fresh spin on a cliche with real change. After all, what's the incentive to read your story if it's just the same old rehashed garbage.
5. Maybe a focus on one of the characters developing severe anxiety, a real struggle that hasn't be tackled by anyone else yet.
6. ANYTHING outside of the main cliches. If you have an idea that doesn't fit the mold of a typical story for the fandom then you're on the right track. A breath of fresh air is always fun to read if done well and the plot doesn't get overly convoluted and mixed up with other fandoms to the point it might just belong in the crossover section.
Message to the fandom.
This is one of the few sections actually growing on the site and there are so many things yet to be done. The cliches aren't bad if you can do them right, but most of the time it's just shameless attempts at leeching off the popularity of another popular story or just stories that forget the characters.
It's easy to make the characters into their basic personality traits and forget that they are people. That's what makes stories bash fics.
I also encourage anyone thinking of writing here to do so. If you think something won't be popular then write for the people who do like it and write just for the sake of making a quality story. If you aren't doing this to be good, but rather to capitalize on trends your story is already being held back. I see the potential in some of the people who do write the cliche stories and it makes me wish that they'd step outside of the box a little bit.
I mean Fan fiction and storytelling in general are only held back by the capacity of your imagination. Why write a rehash of a story that's become formulaic when you can write something that is one of a kind? People will be more intrigued by the new story instead of the NSL fic done for the millionth time.
NEVER FEAR TO LIGHT THE BOX ON FIRE AND STEP OUTSIDE!
Hey guys, I uploaded this and took it down because it violated TOS, but personally I just don't care what it says.
I also want to issue an apology to anyone missing my main stories. I've recently been bogged down by school and extra circular activities and writing doesn't have nearly as much time as it did during the summer.
I still intend to use weekends to write here, but it's gonna be hard to get stuff out like I wanted to, and if they take my account down for this then it's been nice talking to you all.
Bye.
