I've received a lot of messages and requests asking me to give them tips for fanfiction and writing in general, but I've always been very hesitant in making such a post. This is because I am honestly a complete amateur myself, and I don't want anybody to think that I am pretentiously giving out advice because I think I'm better than you all - that is most certainly not the case. Before reading on please strongly note that these are just writing tips that I find work for myself, and by no means am I claiming that I my way of writing surpasses all other methods. 

With that said, a majority of these tips apply to fanfiction writers specifically, but if you can use them in your every day life that would be fabulous as well!

1. Plan your whole story out before hand.

If you're simply writing as you go along, the organization in your story may often be loss as the chapters are formed. While you don't need exact details (Although that would be extremely grateful for writer's block), you should have a basic outline of what events are going to happen throughout your story. 

2. Document all your ideas.

If you ever get an idea for your story, whether it be in the middle fo class or right ebfore you go to bed, make sure you write it down. This well help a lot in the future when you have writer's block, for you can revisit all the ideas you've had that haven't been written about yet. I record all my ideas, even the smallest ones, down in my itouch, and I often forget what I've written a few weeks later, so it's a lot of fun re-reading them! When you revisit ideas you've previously come up with, it gets the creativity in your mind reworking.

3. If you have writer's block for a particular scene, write another one.

Often times I find myself at a complete stand still as to what I'd like to have happen next in a series of events, and if I can't think of anything I abandon it all together. What I found worked extremely well in not having an extensive writer's block is that I would work on a different scene I had planned out to happen in the future. This way you can continue working the creative stems in your brain, and get words typed out onto your computer screen. When I have bursts of motivation to write a particular scene even if it's not next in the sequence, I write it. Usually I have a lot of scenes written out, and then I'll link them together afterwards with little tidbits.

4. Write a large portion of your story before making it public.

This helps for people who are slow to update or who like changing up their plot a lot. Before I release a story I normally have 50 or so pages written out in word. I am both of the things I had just mentioned, so having this much already written allows me have more timely updates for my readers. Also, I tend to come up with a lot of ideas as the story progresses, so I can easily go back and change things in the beginning of the plot without confusing the readers.

5. Read WELL WRITTEN fanfiction.

I find that I actually learn more from fanfiction than I do from actual published novels. When you're exposed to a lot of different writing styles, you tend to pick up some methods and mold them together into your own -  at least that's what happened to me. HOWEVER, guilty pleasure fanfiction will not improve your writing styles. Cliche romantic comedies, I find, are normally  written the worse among all other genres. (This does not apply to everybody, however, for I have read some extremely well written romantic comedies!) It's nice to read fluffy cute fics that don't ahve the best english, now and then, but odds are that it won't help you improve your own english.

6. Make use of constructive criticism.

Don't get mad when somebody points out a flaw in your story, or that there is no character development or whatnot. Instead use that to make your story even better. I received a lot of spiteful comments on True Beauty myself, and while they are annoing, some of them also hold significant value that allowed me to make True Beauty even better. That being said, however, don't take them to heart. If somebody tells you that your story , tell them to go to hell and keep on writing! 

That's all I can think of for now, but I hope at least one of them could be of some help!