AVOIDING SCAMS - Terrible Writing Advice
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Terrible Writing Advice gets taken into the wonderful world of writing scams. Come with me and you’ll be in a world of pure exploitation. Take a look and you’ll see into your own economic devastation.
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Useful resources for writers when it comes to avoiding scams.
www.sfwa.org/other-resources/for-authors/writer-beware/ < Writer Beware. One of the older and more useful sources when it comes to avoiding scams
accrispin.blogspot.com/ < The Writer Beware blog
www.victoriastrauss.com/advice/contests/ < Victoria Strauss’s article on fraud writing contests
www.sfwa.org/other-resources/for-authors/writer-beware/agents/ < Writer Beware on agent scams
Ok this is epic
welp, good Sunday morning buddy! you're up early!
I would suggest including these in the description too.
Is this from personal experience? I hope not.
@@theodorepinnock1517
It sounds like it.
Press 'F' to pay respects, THEN HEAD OVER TO HIS PATREON HE CAN EAT AND SLE_ ERR MAKE NEW VIDEOS EVERY MONTH! :D
Now, I could avoid scams. But...I really, _REALLY_ need to know how this person has stopped aging and why doctors hate them.
Doctors hate "them" and not "him"? this inconsistent grammar is interesting, now I really need to know too!
They killed the doctor's family.
The doctor is angry.
Wear a necklace of apples to ward his attacks while you speak.
Who should I trust? Just Some Guy with a Mustache or Just Some Guy without a Mustache?
He/they are malpractice attorneys who committed suicide.
it's all down to this one simple trick! ...number five will SHOCK you. [photo of a really gross injury] [photo of a bowl of mashed bananas]
Only 6,000 dollars? Wow, your Ukrainian bride sure is low maintenance.
Aidan Muller best part of it all, you don’t need her name to identify her. She will be the one with the 3rd arm and glowing in the dark.... gonna save you soooo much money by not having to have lights on in the house at night, and free heat for the winter..... win win and win, if I do say so myself... which I do.
@@wrayday7149 better than most wives earned by investing in "meaningful" relationships that just keep using up your money for useless cosmetics after marriage. I'd say that Ukrainian beauty is a quadruple money saving win.
As someone who reads a lot of business and sale books, here are some tricks businesses use to scam or influence people to buy their stuff at the top of my head.
1. Notice how some stories put 1.99 and not just 2 bucks? Notice how some products are 3.99 and not 4 bucks? Well, research shows that this slight difference in price makes it look a lot cheaper to people.
2. Some companies make certain similar products more expensive than other similar products on purpose, because people assume more expensive products are always higher quality.
3. Some companies like to make stuff available only for a limited time to use fear to pressure you in making a decision to buy it.
4. Some companies show you a list of bad options, products and services first on purpose, then show you the real product they want you to buy because it makes it look so much better compared to the worst ones.
5. Some stores give you freebies such as trying some free tries of their snacks because it influences you to embarassed so you would feel obliged to pay them back with their product.
6. Some companies like to make really emotional advertisements, especially ones to make you cry, to attract as many viewers as possible.
7. Some companies put fake good reviews on their websites, so check out some of more honest reviews on other websites.
8. Notice how in call worker companies, when you pick up the phone, they tell you how many years of experience they have? Yes, that’s for a reason.
9. Some companies aim to make their product views as controversial as possible on purpose, because that would attract more buyers because people love the drama, even if they say they hate it.
10. Lastly, advertisers and companies often have something called Company Archetypes based on Carl Jung’s 12 archetypes. That is when they market themselves, they attach certain values to their product, so when people buy the product, they’re not just buying the product, but the values associated with the company. That’s why you associate hippie and rebellious young techies with Apple users and think more experienced and hardworking older programmers with Microsoft.
Sincerely,
Very honest marketer.
PS : If you want some info on how to avoid being manipulated, inform others not to be manipulated or how to manipulate those who manipulate others to not make them manipulate others as I do, try the books 48 Laws of Power or Influence. There’s the Chinese “Thick Face, Black Heart.” Also books on Toltecs’ advice on how to live life (Think basically Mexican philosophers and spiritual thinkers) has a lot to mention on how not to care about others think that would make you pressured to spend a lot of dumb money on something. Think Don Miguel Ruiz maybe as an author, “The Four Attachments,” and a lot more if you look.
*for those interested the value/exchange rate of the Ukrainian dollar (or hryvnia) is around 0.041 per United States Dollar so yeah, at 243.89 that's a real bargain alright...*
this reply is extremely unoriginal and annoying but
2000th like
Next episode's love triange: Mr. Terrible Writing Advice
, The Nigerian Prince and The Ukrainian bride.
I ship TRA and the Nigerian prince
Plot twist: Nigerian Prince and Ukrainian Bride are the same person
Quick find another character to complete the love triangle!
@@daltonfilho835 Second twist: The Nigerian Prince/Ukrainian Bride was JP's *cousin* all along! We can make a full soap opera out of this trio
@@dipdop9734 duo*.
The reason you can trust Terrible Writing Advice is because at least the channel name is staying honest.
Err.404=Logic_not_found
You can always trust a dishonest man to be dishonest. Honestly!
Maybe you should ask a completely honest person what a dishonest person would do. It's not like the FBI would ever hired successful criminals or anything.
@@christianbjorck816 It's the honest ones you want to watch out for, because you can never predict when they're going to do something incredibly... stupid.
Nameless Person God I love that movie.
The Nigerian prince is the most trustworthy person since my injured uncle Billy who called me for money instead of calling 911
Did he charge you a call fee everyone knows if you call someone who's injured you got to pay a call fee
Do any of them have a particular recommendation on masculinity size-wise enhancement techniques? I receive lots of offers of this kind, I'm sure some may be just more effective than others.
A Nigerian prince once tried to romance me.
@@petitio_principii yeah he charged me $60 from he said he would deliver it in 6 months
@@highcouncil1302 I was making a reference to how scammers pretend to be someone you know. it was just another scammer pretending to be my "uncle"
My stocks in a red flag manufacturer just soared for some reason.
Clearly the money is in the red flag business
***STONKS***
I have invested all my money in red flag enterprises.. I am sure they will call me back anyday to tell me how much I have earned
Hopefully this will help pay off my $500,000 dollar debt from that Pakistani monk's contrivium deal.
@Hoàng Nguyên What are you talking about? All the Pakistanis I've met are wise hermit monks who shun all material possessions but still have the internet and a large stockpile of rare minerals that I can inherit for nothing but a small processing fee paid through Western Union.
Remember that there's no shame in admitting that you've been tricked, you've been backstabbed, and you've been, quite possibly, bamboozled.
Yeah, but you sure do feel guilty for discrediting another human being though.
Just like the simulations.
Or you could do
Scammer: If you sign with us we’ll enter you in for 10 different awards and sign you with a 5 star editor for $2.
You: My sensors indicate you’re lying, and my bullshit meter agrees.
*the real fun starts when you put up a considerable bounty on the heads of those who scammed you then post the video of their cowering forms as they are being attacked by giant lobsters while canned laughter plays in the background....naturally that footage would be demonetized on some social media platforms but you can accept that*
Wanna make sure you're getting scammed at some point?
Just say 'I can't be scammed' out loud.
Modesty *does* work.
The amount of, "this is speaking from personal experience" vibes coming from this video kinda scares me...
same here...
Is JP alright?
ALUCARD
If this was real, it probably happened a long time ago. I doubt JP would be alluding to it if it were _that_ recent.
@@BlackCover95
True.
But still.
Unrelated but damn your avatar gave me nostalgia flashbacks. Been years since I've seen a Slorg.
It feels like he’s got scam emails, but never replied
If there's a love triangle involved, somebody's getting scammed.
I mean......... Technically.
There is such a thing as a Ménage à trois...
But if you've got the energy, stamina, AND raw charisma to pull one of those of, I don't think you need even the mighty Skillshare.
Yeah. The reader
The love pyramid scheme
Love pyramid scheme.
How to make a book that's the best book scammers have ever read ever:
-plot
-characters
-belongs to a genre
-has other things that books have
@Mediocrity Don't worry, if you send me a copy of it along with your credit card and valid ID, I'm sure we can find a pseudo catego... I mean _target_ _audience_ that can make your work shine in the -trash- -bin- glory it belongs to.
@Mediocrity modern art
@vacuum sealed garfield finally a good book
@vacuum sealed garfield Ah yes, a classic slice of rock experience. If you pay me “One HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS,” I will find a market for it. I’ll even throw in a Super Darwin Award!
- A Totally Trustworthy Bald Evil Doctor With A Cat
I can teach you guys how not to get scammed. You have to send me your credit card info first though.
If you can do something well, never do it for free.
Draco Murdock what if you are good at helping homeless people?
Okkkkkk I will give u my roYal Nigerian credit caErd numbbb if u give me yours first ;)
Ok, my VISA is 4017-0988-2013-0991, the expiration is 02/23 and the three-digit code is 988. When can I get the info? :)
Ok, i trust you fully without any question what records or other clients you even had, and sucessful sales, or if you have an office, no take my house key, my credit card, my first born. I trust you call back some day.
You see, your first mistake was not involving yourself in a love triangle with these scammers. That always makes these deals work out!
Those shark agency could have had a treacherous love triangle. With pointless, senseless intrigues and romance. What a missed opportunity.
@@jonsnor4313 A bunch of love triangles in a cutthroat industry generating and complicating plots and interests actually sounds like a golden writer's prompt
@@glumbortango7182 Probably, but I still wouldn’t read it. Maybe it should rebrand to the inexperienced but horny YA audience.
@@glumbortango7182 so basically a telenovela I've always scam callers yuck you can make good stuff with that but not my cup of tea
The most important thing to remember is to always fully trust Hollywood when making movie adaptations.
Give them full control-theres no three big series **cough** Harry Potter** **cough** Percy Jackson** **avatar the last Airbender** -excuse me, that give you any reason to pause when giving control to a director
Well if Stephen King's remake of the Shining has proven anything just because the author is the director and more faithful doesn't mean it's going to be good.Steven King hates Kubrick's version of the Shining and Anne Rice has no issue with Queen of the Damned.
@@whatteamwildcats4033
Jurassic Park, How to Train your Dragon, Fight Club, Princess Bride, Forest Gump, Jumangi, Godfather, Jaws, Shawshank Redemption
Am I a Joke to you?
@@FraserSouris The Princess Bride is one of the greatest movies of all time. I don't mean to be rude, for I have not read the book yet, I just have to speak the truth.
I think the big issue is to avoid being fleeced. Jaws is a big reason why you'll find the original writer in the credits of every movie. IIRC, the writer had so little faith in that movie that he opted out of all affiliation with it, including royalties.
At (4:54), the small text reads:
"We reserve the right to display your work on our site forever. Also we own your firstborn child now."
Jokes on them, I sold my child for a toaster years ago.
Thanks
Says every last person with myopia
@@joehayes9933 A Keurig woulda been better.
@@joslyncarter4813 does your keurig machine have a timer? If not, then suck it!
@@joehayes9933 😔
I can feel the seething anger through the screen. THE ILLUSION IS BREAKING.
Ikr, like he's personally been through this before.
*HMMM*
@@Crawdithe98 Everyone was. It isn't unique problem.
@@TheRezro Well, I haven't. At least not yet.
@@Crawdithe98 Good luck then.
@@Crawdithe98 *yet*
*"A NeW yOrK tImEs bEsT sElLeR"*
"Funniest movie of the year!"
- its February.
Literally every popular book ever
It's hilarious to see a book with the "New York Times best seller" quote right after passing by 5 other books that say the same thing.
Who remembers this?
www.amazon.com/Putting-Foot-Down-Brent-Underwood-ebook/dp/B01CGVG6RQ
New York Times Best Seller just means a lot of people read it. It doesn't mean it's necessarily GOOD.
Just say ok to scammers, and if they say stop saying ok say okay just to annoy them ok.
Dont say ok to scammer make a long boring and unecessary conversation instead
Ok
James Veitch?
Ok.
okay
Steven Matthews also ask for a toaster
I love how the phrase “Nigerian prince” is now a synonym for lying scammer.
This video almost sound like it came from a personal place. If true, my condolences for you or whoever you know whom had this happen.
@blackrave404 So he could deposit the huge royalties directly!
"...Get paid with exposure which I'm pretty sure killed most of the Donner Party along with starvation"
Brilliant
You've become very very good at giving ridiculously practical advice for writers in between the lines. Respect.
Skillshare, however, is obviously not a scam, since it's advertised absolutely everywhere.
@@mikitz Raid Casino Legends is also advertised everywhere
Everything said above goes double for ghostwriters. There are no shortage of people who want to use your talent to get a free script out of you. Methods range from underpaying you for your time to begging you to come in with them outside whatever third party website they found you at.
@Fountainblaze Yeah...a legit profession with a long pedigree. You do the work, someone else's name is on the finished product. In exchange for a one-time fee, you do this job.
"The Nigerian Prince I'm letting borrow my bank account-"
SAY NO MORE.
SAY NO MORE.
My Prince gave me 12 million dollars.
@@Seadog7981 Click here to get atomized and bombed, then reformed and revived and reorganized into your cell combination at its prime, right in front of me! Your very own Nigerian Prince. givemeyourmoneyunconditionally.org
This experience may be painful, even traumatic as suggested by 98.45 of our customers, but I assure you it is perfectly safe and you'll recover in no time!
I had an Ivorian who told me of my uncle's death in a car accident and that I needed his help to get the inheritance money.
@@ralek592 What! That’s insane in a hilarious way, I’d totally like to read anything you write.
@@ConnanTheCivilized I got scared reading my own comment I thought an actual bot took over my account and posted weird ad shit lol
The anger in your voice makes me think these are becoming personal
If they are, at least he's matured and wizened enough to be able to laugh at his follies. Not too many of us get to that point.
glad im not the only one who felt that. kindda intense
I really hope the scam he fell to wasn't nearly this transparent though. I mean, sure, you should learn from your mistakes but you don't need vast experience to figure out that a shady email you got is not something you should throw your money on.
I’m thinking it was someone he knew that got scammed
It makes sense he would be angry when talking about lowlife scammers who prey on young naive writer.
People who do that are awful
Moral of the story: Don’t get bought out by EA
Or Disney, definitely not Disney.
@@ArtichokeAnarchy Yeah or your stuff will be ruined
Wow. An EA joke. Where'd you copy and paste this from?
@@boshwa20 wow, a copy-paste joke. Did you read that on the back of a cereal box.?
Being bought out is not exactly something you are in control of.
1:20
As a Russian, I can tell you that this is some spelling and grammar far superior to even what a sober Russian would be capable of.
P.S Russian isn't the only language that uses Cyrillic, others do too.
Do you know what the Cyrillic email translates to?
Nope, it's either not Russian, or just gibberish.
Most likely the latter, because I doubt TWA would go out of his way to find some word from a foreign language to use in an email in one of his videos.
I'm pretty sure its just JP typing "notascam" into Google Translate
@@Schut_gorokhoviy I think it says notascam but in a weird way
Honestly, Blazar, I don't see a problem with your use of English. I'd say you use it quite well.
Author: *gets scammed*
Comic relief character: *Z A P P E R S*
Author: gets scammed
Comic relief character: Z A P P E R S
I'm waiting
are you laughing yet? is this reply funny to you? does this even look remotely like comedy? Why do yo have to do this, I don't think there's even a recognizable joke here, it's just the zappers shit that we heard a million times from jp himself.
"Reading is for loosers." --An aspiring author.
May seem random to some but this video made me wanna recommend Atomic Shrimp, Sci Man Dan,
Professor Dave and maybe-more-if-youw-want, cause they cover $camms and i dont want people to fal for ‚em.
"You can always trust somebody with three first names"
The frig man my middle name is Michael!!!!!!
Why are you so upset about being trustworthy?
Lmaooo
Hhmmm, i seem to be getting caught in a long running scam. It’s a bunch of writing videos that spout advice that gets me in trouble more often than not! I mean I thought doing a love triangle with only Mary Sues would really get me noticed! Thank you for your advice, J.P. I’ll be sure to watch all your videos 10 times over!
When you look at everything through rose-coloured glasses, all the red flags just look like flags.
_Hey you wanna write essays for college students?_
“No not really. Wait, is that even legal?”
_Well what about business writing, you can write about accounts and sales right?_
“Not particularly though I did get work writing for a video game. Anything like that again?”
_Never touched the stuff. Hey you wanna fill in for this blog we shut down last year?_
I can verify that all three of these job types have popped up on Upwork until recently.
5:09 "Reading is for losers." J.P. Beaubien, a writer.
I am literally looking forward to the Villain skits more then the actual writing advice 😂.
"A NEW CHALLENGER APPROACHES!,"
"BLACK KNIGHT MC'STABBY PANTS!"
IKR! I really love the villain skits xD
**James Veitch intensifies**
**Skill Share Intensifies**
H U M M U S I S G O I N G T O B E B I G
@blackrave404 Look up James Veitch. xD
@blackrave404 thats just part of his jokes. Also, would like to have a red toaster?
TOASTER BONANZA
*No conditions apply!*
"I should invite the Nigerian prince to the wedding!" Lol!
*i hear he's very thoughtful with is gift selections...especially with his friends and online acquaintances*
"Analytical Thinking? WHATS THAT!" I scream huddled in the corner of my basement writing a twilight fanfic...
Twilight fanfic? Wait, are you the author of Fifty Shades of Gray?
At least you're self-aware.
It's has the word "anal" in it. I don't like the sound of it.
As someone who has been trying to get an agent for years, the entire industry feels like a scam.
Please make a terrible writing advice on making terrible writing advice
Just slap in a random love triangle and you're done
So wouldn't the video end up giving good writing advice?
@@Joey-pb6ul {head explodes}
Meta.
scammer: "Hello, this is your bank calling about your account"
scammer: "Hello, this is your car dealership calling about your car"
me: I don't actually deal with any company called "your car dealership" and I have more than one bank.
I get the above 3 times a day, every single day.
I get texts about my Wells Fargo account. The account I don't actually have.
“And don’t listen to that Ackbar guy!” Nice Easter Egg.
Oh Ackbar. Many will miss him. In more than one way.
Ackbar's suit actor almost cried in his statement as in a way Rian Johnson disrespected the character of Ackbar by a rather tone death take on set. To understand why this hit the suit actor and many old fans in the heart was because while Ackbar may only had a few lines in the movies, he is one of the most important and fleshed- out characters in the lore of Star Wars. Realising that the director of the new production most likely doesn't know the "off- screen" importance of the character and instead treated him as a joke, since his meme status, must have hurt for the suit actor. Realising that many new fans don't know/ care about the original canonical backstories either, looking at twitter responses, hurts me personally as worldbuilder/ writer.
@@valentinmitterbauer4196 Most only have seen the movies, and those few lines don't make an interesting character...
@@francisthompson3772 You could at least demand that the movie's director has a clue about it...
Aaaand this is why I turned to the Deviantart Webcomic model and have been trying to adapt it to work with prose writing. Sustaining a patreon seems so much better than trying to deal with trad-publishing properly, or trying to avoid such and still get published without copping a scam to the face..
Good luck buddy, it's tough out there
Know what you mean.
Scams? Those don't exist, my good friend from Nigeria will definitely deliver my money post haste!
Hey I know a prince from there!
Oh no, not Knight-Commander McStabbyPants! The plot thickens, my wallet drains, my love has three corners and my skills expand with Skillshare. Whatever shall we do?
The real scam is believing it’s a scam!
So buy now!
6:51
That's actually a cool idea for a character arc in a book.
I don't know what I'm going to do with said arc, but it may turn out into something interesting.
I love how if you convert the Cyrillic name to Latin you get notascam/notastsam (“not a scam”).
They are from Notascamistan.
I couldn't figure it out for I read it as notastsam ...
good chance that was intentional
I really hope there's one person out there who directly avoided a scam or broke free of the sunken cost fallacy thanks to this video.
To those who don't know the Russian alphabet, "нотасцам" is supposed to read as "not a scam", but as a note from me, 'ц' is pronounced as 'ts' so a better letter would be 'к', which is pronounced the same as in English.
Sorry to any Russians out there if I got this wrong, Russian is my second language.
Thanks for reading!
So when's the wedding? Is the prince gonna be there?
Plot twist: the Prince *is* the bride.
@@huntarthebarbarian8407 that should be his next video, Plot Twists!
I got a very wealthy Nigerian Prince ready to sponsor your next video J.B.
Careful, the Ukrainian bride will get jealous
"If it is to good to be true just be more positive" is my new jam 🔥
Easy way to tell a scam, does it complement you? If the answer is yes then it's a scam.
Painfully true a lot of the time.
ArtofthePossible really? TmT
Oh well TwT
That Exposure-Donner Party line was genius. That’s top-tier wittiness.
Around 6:00
The Nigerian Prince got a bad rap. And I'm sure that your future Ukrainian bride 👰 will be the wife of your dreams. Only the best...for $6000!
$6000?! That's practically a steal!
@@louisduarte8763 ikr?🤗
I'll take your entire stock of definitely not a scam brides
Слава Україні!
I always love the TWAEU segments at the end of each video.
Man, the Skillshare sponsorship has more plot than most of Hollywood. What a time to be alive!
“Reading is for losers!”
-JP Beaubien, a writer
"Writing should never flow to a writer, a writer must pay for the privilege of writing for a publisher. I'm sure that's how most other jobs work."
Well, in reality, that's how scientific publications works XD
Scientists paid revues to publish their works, and then they paid revues to read the works of their colleagues :D
No and no. He said money not writing. The scientists you mentioned are often university professors that get better payed jobs the more they publish for example the ones that get tenure. The universities they work at also gives them access to their database so that part eith them paying to read what their colleagues articles is off. Their research projects expense are almost always paid by someone else.
Cant compare writers with people with doctorates. Writers are more like actors with a small few making bank and the rest have to live off another job or survive. While a majority of scientists have a decent stable income. There's the few earning big in the pharmaceutical or any field that has commercial use.
Of course always a small minority struggling because of the nature of the field they study. But those are very rare.
as a russian i bursted laughing at the naming
May seem random to some but this video made me wanna recommend Atomic Shrimp, Sci Man Dan, Professor Dave and maybe-more-if-youw-want,
cause they cover $camms and i dont want people to fal for ‚em.
When you think about it, it's ironic that JP originally showed them as one dimensional villain characters, but with the sponsership wars, they got more and more depth and characterization to them. Like DL actually liking MLP and binge watching Netflix. lol
Star Trek DS9 did an episode where they seemingly presented a ‘cure for aging,’ as if it were a real possibility. At the end of the episode, the character we’d been following was mocked for being taken in by such an obvious scam. You know an idea is moronic when even Star Trek lampoons it.
But but but, Jaws told me my writing career was going swimmingly!
(I am going to stalk that blog down here, thanks!)
I hope you're secretly writing stories about the Terrible Writing Advice expanded universe
Oh my god.
hes making a love triangle...
Out of the sponsor.
4:33 that’s not the glamorous life of a writer. Firstly where’s the empty alcohol and pill bottle and there isn’t even questionable white powder on, well...EVERYTHING!
Could you please make a terrible writing advice on time travel?
He already did. (Commenting from the future.)
Andrew Gwilliam then why can’t I find it?
@@wizofwonders Because you're not in the future. 😀
'A writer must pay for the privilege of writing for a publisher'. This is actually how scientific publishing works!!!!
4:04, I actually got this treatment from an agency that was listed on the WGA website, you can't trust anyone these days...
“You can always trust someone with three first names!” Meanwhile my name is Zackery William Craig Alexander...
Is there a playlist of just the evil Corp ads. Best ads on CZcams ever!
2:34 "their website is full of grammatical errors" well duh, obviously that's why they're looking for a writer!
The roast🔥
Hahah... Laughed at the "drunken Russian" joke, cause the letters are actually written in кириллица. But the thing written there is not actually a word.
You cant avoid Scams better than by watching YT-Channels
specilizing in teaching you how to be wary of 'em.
Like Atomis Shrimp, Professor Dave Explains, Jim Browning.
Worst thing for me was that I carefully crafter sarcastic emails to scammers finding out it was just automated spam with no real human behind to take my deadly irony
Why do I get the feeling at least one of the emails shown here is one that a scammer actually sent JP? XD
Also, that punchline at the very very end. So good.
0:57 I will tell you who you can trust, the Chinese royalty! They’re not only royalty, but also is actually emperors!
2:35. Lol. I legitimately have three first names as does most of my family because our last name is a first name. It's actually really annoying because someone will ask for my last name and I'll tell them and they'll be like no your last name. Especially since it's a male name and I'm female.
Also can you do one of villain protagonists?
I have three first names also, but my surname is pretty obviously a surname, even if people get it wrong all the time :P
@The Jester - Fool Of Hearts Never been called sir over the phone, but most of thr calls I get are people who know me, robocalls, and people who speak spanish trying to get ahold of the last person who had my number.
@The Jester - Fool Of Hearts Yeah. I don't know who had the phone before me, but apparently they they have a car ticket in West Florida that whoever was trying to text them was outraged about them getting. I've never been to Florida.
Is there something you'd like to tell us mr Terrible Writing Advice?
Okay that Donner Party joke got me to snort. Well done!
Man after checking out some of the links in the description I certainly feel better read ironically. Some of those scams run surprisingly deep.
Can't this be said for most scams in general?
Yes
@@big_slurp4603 oh wow! Thank you
1:25 "нотасцам" is notasam phonetically
I have seen all of these back when I worked in cinema. It is astounding how anything legitimate gets out through the weeds of scammers.
1:25 that's a close transliteration of "not a scam". But correct version would look like "нотэскэм".
So THAT'S what that other guy was grousing about... Thanks! ;o)
That's actually some pretty nice wordplay at 0:44.
7:41-7:49 - D&D, who kind of forgot that Dany's army got massacred by zombies and terrible battle formation.
When I was younger, someone reached out to me to give me a commercial deal.
I was 14 and had only written a bad RWBY wattpad fanfiction. Good thing I was a smart child.
I can just hear the years of being scammed in his voice. Wish you and other writers luck with your journeys.
Everyone else: Thanks TWA for helping us look out for these scams!
Me: These scams look pretty easy to do...
*HMMMMMMMMMM*
@@MasterP86 HHHHHMMMMMMMMMMM?!?!?!?!
so no one is going to talk about how Dark Lord has watched ALL of My Little Pony when he escaped eternal prison?
Knight Commander McStabbypants? Did I miss an episode, or is this a preview of an exciting new character? I love the TWA cinematic universe!
The aura of this video is a stark contrast to the usual carefree sarcasm your other videos have. You okay, Joseph?
Wait their name is Joseph??
“Reading is for losers” -author
Fun fact: I heard somewhere that scammers actually use bad grammar and misspelling on purpose, because if someone is naive and dumb enough to not notice the bad grammar, then their likely not going to notice the discrepancies and red flags that they’re being scammed either until it’s too late
Funny enough I've been contacted by a "publisher" who wanted me to pay them $1500-3000 (depending on their "packages").
Is this the voice of experience?
you should write a fanfic with this amazing advice!
"We reserve the right to display your work on our site forever! Also we own your firstborn child now."
- t. the tiny text at the 5-minute mark
The thing I love about this channel is that it actually is good advice. It tells me exactly what not to do and when I'm writing I like to look at this and see if I can find any similarities in my own work.