Lily Orchard Doesn't Understand Writing | A Response to CD-Call's Writing Advice

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Back in 2020, Lily Orchard released 101 Writing Tips for writers. She received immediate backlash and deleted the tips, claiming it was all just trolling. However, based on the opinions reflected in her various reviews and video essays, it's clear these tips came from her heart. She constantly makes thinly veiled criticisms of She-Ra, Steven Universe, and other animated shows from the 2010s that Lily was obsessing over. So, naturally, I took the time to review all of them (after Tumblr and my Discord Community pressured me into reviewing them). I expected it might take an hour, briefly going over the tips. Instead...look at that run time. Let's take her various writing tips and compare them to works of cinema and literature. This is the only Lily Orchard video where Pride and Prejudice, Wes Craven, and Neon Genesis Evangelion will ever be brought up organically. Thumbnail @SaiScribbles Lily Writing Advice Chapters: 0:00 Introduction to Lily Orchard and Her Writing Tips 1:38 What a Twist! 5:19 Lily Orchard Explains When To Get the Main Couple Together 7:57 Friends to Lovers or Enemies to Lovers? 8:31 Lily Orchard Conflates Redemption Arcs and Abuse Recovery 10:14 Lily Orchard Hates Batman and His No Kill Rules 13:17 Lily Confuses Abuse with Combat 16:11 Lily Orchard vs. Twitter 16:58 Lily Orchard Doesn’t Believe in Redemption 20:57 Lily Orchard Hates Bigoted Stories 23:46 Lily Orchard and Stockholm 26:08 Lily Orchard Would Not Want a 1000 Year Old Elf 27:33 Lily Orchard Hates Metaphors 29:08 Lily Attacks Non-human Gays 30:52 Lily Orchard Explains Gay Stereotypes 32:25 Lily Orchard Just Gets Mad at She-Ra 33:40 Lily Explains Racism 34:47 Lily Orchard vs. Drag Queens 36:37 Lily Orchard Abuse Lecture 37:39 POC and Sidelining 38:43 I go on a tangent about Evangelion 40:25 Lily Talks About Impractical Armor 41:48 Lily Insists She Knows How Everyone Else Writes 43:39 Don’t Get Inspired By Other Media Ever? 45:11 Lily Orchard Thinks Friends is Better than Neon Genesis Evangelion 48:11 Stories Can’t Change Tone, Ever! 51:30 Lily Orchard Doesn’t Understand World Building 54:02 Lily Explains Character Writing 59:47 Lily Orchard Believes Artists Can’t Write 1:01:55 Lily Tells Us What Romance Stories We Should Be Enjoying 1:04:35 Non-Consensual Romance and Abuse 1:08:12 Bad Things Don’t Happen to Bad People? 1:11:26 Lily Gets a Few W’s 1:14:11 Lily Orchard the Goblin Slayer 1:16:55 Ant vs. TVTropes 1:18:44 Lily Orchard Gives Romance Advice 1:19:54 Lily Orchard Explains How to Take Criticism 1:20:39 Lily Orchard on Fandom Discourse 1:22:46 There’ll Be Lots of Fanservice! 1:25:28 Where I Start To Lose It a Little 1:29:37 Forced Diversity 1:30:54 Revolution 1:34:08 Lily Offers a Sad View on Her Love Life 1:41:07 Lily Hates Coming of Age….Stories 1:42:50 Lily Orchard Doesn’t Understand Fantasy 1:45:56 Token Characters 1:49:24 Lily Cannot Take Criticism 1:50:22 Lily Polices the LGBTQIA Community 1:54:18 Lily Should Just Read Cozy Fantasy 1:56:05 Running a D&D Campaign vs. Writing a Story 1:58:47 Lily Orchard vs. The Rocky Horror Picture Show 2:01:57 I Get Pissed at Lily For Her Arrogance 2:06:24 The Ultimate Evil 2:10:07 Lily Doesn’t Understand Why People Watch Television 2:15:32 The Home Stretch 2:22:38 Was Any of This Worth Our Limited Time on Earth?