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A Fan Fiction Writer's Guide

50th chapter guys.

Wow.

It shouldn't be that big of a deal because the chapters are super short.

I'm 50 away from 100.

So instead of putting just ONE no no, I'm going to just put a lot.

And....

START!

-In most stories, the parents hate their gay kid and kick them out of the house despite not being religious in the slightest which is usually the reason why a parent would hate their child.

-Everyone is a Mary Sue. Yay for bad character creation!

-Apparently dialogue is all one big paragraph.

Observe:

"Wow, you look amazing," Carter gawked as Benedict walked down the stairs in skinny jeans and a Superman t-shirt. "Really?" Benedict smiled and linked his hand with Carter's. "Yeah, you do." Carter kissed Benedict's head softly and they walked towards the door. Suddenly, there was a voice from Benedict's mother's room. "Benedict, sweetie?" "Yes mom?" "Is that Carter?" Benedict's face paled. "N-no! It's just a friend. We're going to the movies." "Ok! I hope you're not with that filthy animal." "Of course not, mom!" "Ok! Have fun, sweetie." Benedict sighed and led Carter out the door and they quickly hopped into Carter's car and drove away.

Two errors: One, no new paragraph, and Benedict's mom would be able to see out her window. Hey! Two no no's in one!

-Always with the skinny jeans and baggy outfits. I mean, I love to wear baggy things with skinny jeans, but not every day. Apparently the characters don't have a lot of choices when it comes to clothes. Usually a baggy sweatshirt, skinny jeans, and converse; baggy sweater, skinny jeans, and converse; or their boyfriend's huge t-shirt, skinny jeans, and converse. Guys, people wear other things, you know.

-The characters always go to a cafe or a scary movie on the first date. If some guy took me to a scary movie on the first date, he can just take me right back home. Anyway, enough cafes.

-Character's family is basically all dead. Even their aunts, uncles, grandmas, and cousins. Welp, better live with some guy from school who I think has a crush on me and is overly attractive. Yup... Because that happens.

 

So yeah. I hope you enjoyed these few "don'ts" of writing. Comment if you would like to add your idea, or comment because you're so kind. If this helped you a little, please give it a thumbs up because you are just a kind, kind person.

Merci beaucoup!

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iexoeris #1
Chapter 41: In chapter 41, the first sentence is grammatically incorrect. In the first sentence, the 'me' should be 'my' instead. It is a very common mistake that I see, even in popular books. I think this grammar rule will change. Also, I am in middle school too and I love EXO. PS- Rick Riordan is my favourite writer. Did you fall in love with PJO, HOO, TOA, Kane Chronicles or Magnus Chase?
tokyeoul #2
Chapter 36: This is what I call fun in learning! This is a really good, humorous, straight-to-the-point guide (I made sure that I used correct punctuation on that sentence okay). You are way younger than me but I am just a newbie writer so this helped me a lot. I am still not finished and I am actually reading this at midnight. No surprise there haha! Anyway, thank you so so much!
BaekYeolChanBaek #3
DUDE WE'RE THE SAME AGE
JKNewsandDavidSo #4
Chapter 55: Lol Alternate Universe if you haven't found out it the few months that you've written this chapter xD
JKNewsandDavidSo #5
Chapter 19: Wow middle school, what grade r u now? I'm in middle school too!
LeaMon #6
I know right, when people don't capitalize properly, spell properly, has bad punctuation or use bad grammar, I immediately stop, because my eyes hurt. I became a grammar nazi, because whenever my friends and I use bad grammar or those other things, she subtracts our discipline points. Now, the things I mentioned above will just make me annoyed and somehow judge people quietly... It's pretty bad, but I can't help it.
hermion8 #7
Chapter 58: Just dropping by to say I totally agree with what you wrote. I tried to write something like this before, although unfortunately, I lost my list of commonly misused words and had to focus on college. Maybe I'll resurrect that soon...
One thing I hate the most though, aside from mid-chapter POV shifts and profiles, is when the author tries to excuse not proofreading by saying "English is not my first language." I understand that not everyone perfects grammar and all, especially one they don't use all the time, but proofreading is a way to learn, right?
I'm babbling here. Haha. I hope more people actually read things like this... There are a lot of plots with potential but... :/
dreamshade #8
Chapter 57: I'm gonna miss this and you, too. Hope that you'll come back and give me and the others more useful tips in writing fanfic. Thank you for sharing too ^^
MissLalaMoon #9
Chapter 28: I agree with this. It really annoys me when I see some Korean words that are simple to use in English (does that even make sense?). One time the entire sentence was in Korean and I had no idea what they were saying. I thought at the end of the chapter they we going to explain what they said, but they didn't. So I stopped reading the story, since most of the story consisted of the characters talking in Korean and I could not stand it. The only Korean word you could say that I use a lot is “yah” since it has been in my vocabulary even before I got into KPOP. I use some other ones, even though I don't like to, but sometimes when I write it English it looks weird. But I don't write full sentences, it just looks odd and I don't even know how to. I only know (and use) the simple terms such as “oppa,” “hyung,” “umma,” and etc.
Milielitre #10
Chapter 55: au stands for Alternate Universe, a story in which your characters are not what they are in real life. The opposite would be cannon, or alternate reality, a story in which your characters are still idols.
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