Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-27082610-20170424154014/@comment-26283771-20170426000820

SpiritedDreaming wrote: Well, the biggest piece of advice I can give is don't make your OCs the centre of the story, and don't make them save the day or make everything turn out good because of them. They're kids, not gods, and the world doesn't work to their whims. Don't have them know something they shouldn't simply because you wrote them, and if they do know something the others don't have it for a believable reason, not just "the bad guys were stupid enough to talk about it in a public place like the library".

By 'Centre of the story" I mean have everything revolve around them; so one ofthem gets chosen to be the Maiden instead of Pyrrha, plus they stop Roman and the Dust robbery on the docks, plus they get through to the finals instead of say, Yang, plus they know all about fairytales and can recite them off the top of their head, plus they know all about the Silver Eyes and mention it to Ruby before Qrow or anyone mentions the tale of the Silver Eyes to her, plus they stop Yang from losing her arm, plus they fight Adam to a standstill while Blake and Yang get away. Yeah I get that all the way.