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"Pro" has the connotation of, you know...being pro.

I'm actually just incredibly bad at all art period.

That was my "You suck at art so badly I didn't want to hurt your feelings so I'm treating you like you're more professional than I." attempt.
Thanks for ruining that. Geesh.

:P

I have accepted my lack of talent, and can laugh at it. Belieeeeeve me, I know I am terrible. And I am okay with that, I excel in other areas.

Now if I were to suck at writing, or air hockey, oh man especially the air hockey. Now that would destroy me.

Teach me the ways of being a writer. Doet. ._.

First step:

1. Join the Grammar Nazis.
2. Live life and learn experiences to use to write.
3. Practice your imprompt to help stretch your imagination skills.
4. Learn how to write things in a interesting way by detailing smell, taste, sound, sighting, and so on. (Instead of saying "It reeks like garbage." Say: "The smell reeked of the love child of a rotten egg and a diaper, that said child has been spoiled by his loving parents and produces an odor so foul that it's stench makes the world itself cry.")
5. Caffeine and sugar is your best friend.
6. The after effects of caffeine and sugar is your worst enemy.
7. Never self insert. Ever. You can take pieces of yourself, but never self insert.
8. Never make a "perfect" character, it's uninteresting and no character is perfect. A good character is one with faults and struggles which makes for a good story.
9. Always enjoy yourself. Any force writing is never good, if your at a writers block just write one page a day and never look back.

I'll have to try that.
Although, I've recently became a Grammar Nazi on Facebook (wouldn't believe how many times I've been unfriended, haha).

Salone's tips:

1) Never take yourself seriously.

2) If you feel good about a piece, leave it be and come back tomorrow. Your opinion will change, you will hate it. Scrap it and try again. Repeat process until you hate it by the lowest amount.

3) Throw in jokes for yourself. Even better, throw in jokes for others.

4) There will always be someone better than you'll ever be. The trick is to never meet them.

5) If you do meet them, learn from them.

6) If you're going to be a Grammar Nazi, read your entire piece to make sure you didn't typo while claiming to be a Grammar Nazi.

7) Have a drink. Sometimes the thing telling you 'no' can drown.
7a) The drink does not have to be alcoholic

8) Writer's Block? What the crap is that? Just write, correct the thing you just wrote, keep writing.

9) If you want real opinions on your work, tell a friend you found 'this awful thing online by some dork, read this and tell me how awful it is.' It's going to hurt, but it puts a more critical bias instead of the friend trying to positively encourage you. If they like it, hey swell, you look kind of like an ass but your stuff is decent!

10) Don't listen to others' ways of writing. Results are not typical. Use them as guidelines and not blueprints. If they don't work for you, eff the system and try your own way.

21.) Don't take advice from anyone on the internet. Especially not me.

Galla's Tips:

37) Learn to count before making lists.
41) Remember to open a word processor before typing.
39) Don't download a car.

You guys are missing the "Always save" rule.

Because I multi-task HEAVILY, so I'm always having random programs crash, lol.

The only saves I make involve Fortitude, Reflex and Will.

Other than that, I like to live dangerously.

I love me a dangerous man.

The "take things too seriously" sometimes gets me into the "writer's block"

(More like "research as much as I know how to, missing something insultingly obvious, and then try to not violate knowledge with my initial idea")

Sometimes I find that researching too much is a detriment. The average reader doesn't need to know the nuanced mechanics behind a lot of goings on in stories. A brief overview or scattered bits here and there help. But unless you're making a Powerpoint presentation for something, let's go with... "Wizard mechanics and the economic impact of limitless magic upon society" for some sort of boy wizard school, you can generally leave it at "Magic! It's cool, isn't it?" and that's that.

Slow it down, keep it short, keep to that one quote about making it simple enough for a six year old to understand it.

Besides, Hollywood has been doing everything the incorrect way for decades, and that hasn't stopped them.

New poses have been added to the elephant, and two of you will find one sitting in your inventories.

Oh, wow. You really didn't have to give us copies. I was just joking. ._.

But... yay, purple! >->