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Asianfanfics is a fangirl’s escape to the reality. Here, you can read stories featuring you and your bias having happy or sad endings together, your OneTruePair or OTP living their happy lives or just drabbles and fics.

Here are teukie_zeroed’s tips and guides for writers:

 What are readers looking for?

1. Their bias. Of course, that’s what makes asianfanfics unique that any other sites. You can tag your biases as the main character of the story. If you are a real diehard fan of an idol, you make tons of fics for him/her. That’s what readers are looking for. They want to experience a virtual life with their biases just by reading your fics.

2. Good story. Beginners in AFF were not very hard to please. When they see their bias as the main character; they go for it. But what about the experienced readers?

What experienced readers are looking for?

1. Not another cliché story. You know the clichés of the story. A high school girl meeting a bad or gangster boy. Vampires falling in love with human and hates wolves. Queenka and kingka clichés. A girl being married to a guy because of business matters and so on. Endless of cliché face palm moments. Think of something interesting! Think of twists that will make your readers flip away everything.

2. Unique style of writing. If you write just like any other author, then think again. Start to think of ways to be original. That’s what makes you unique as a writer.

3. A writer not aiming for publicity. Of course, any writer would want his/her story featured in AFF. But that SHOULDN’T be your goal. Your main goal must be to make readers appreciate your work. Because sometimes the authors who least expect to get a feature gets it.

4. Good characters and characterization. Characters are optional. But the characterization is so cliché. The ones with “Jung Hana, 18. High school girl. Blood type A and insert all the clichés here.” ARE THESE REALLY NECESSARY? Does her blood type have anything to do with the story? Or other things about her? Or you, author is just lazy to characterize them in the most proper way in your story so you outlined each personality, likes and dislikes on the foreword like it is a slam book or something? NO. Just, no. Never do that, for Krisus’ sake.

5. Good title. First impressions always last. And your title is the first thing readers see. What does it take to have a good title? First; relevance. Make sure it’s relevant to your story. Second; make sure the structure is simple. Don’t capitalize things. Don’t use symbols! They are just used in shops or threads. They’re not really pleasing to the eye. Don’t use punctuation marks. Make sure it’s not long. Make it short but with content. And most of all, NEVER TELL HOW THE STORY WILL GO ON YOUR TITLE! Gosh. I read a title once, “My mate died of cancer so I joined him in heaven.” I was like, WTF are you talking about?! Why don’t you just stop updating since you spilled the story on your title? Face-palm moment, I know.

6. Good foreword and description. This is one of the major problems of writers. What to put on foreword? Here’s a simple tip; description is what your story is all about. Foreword is like a preface or prologue. Put there the background of characters IN A PARAGRAPH WAY NOT OUTLINED FORM PLEASE I AM BEGGING YOU. In description, you can leave a question to make the readers curious about your story. Or start it with a quote, saying, anecdote that have MUCH RELEVANCE to your story. You can make it rhyme too. That works if the words you rhyme are relevant to the story. As for disclaimer, author’s note and poster credits, make it at the bottom part of the foreword, with a smaller fonts and lighter color.

7. Grammar. Who would want to read a story written by a 17 year old with the grammar like a 7 year old’s? NO ONE. If you have trouble with grammar or if English is not your first language (like me!), I suggest to read more. Just read. Forget about the story you wanted to write.  Read and read. And your grammar will improve even your comprehension and vocabulary. And also native English speakers are not safe with grammatical errors! Most of you have trouble with verb and nouns and the confusion with plural and singular forms. Be careful! I suggest writing in MS Word. But don’t settle for that. Sometimes, MS Word is wrong too!

8. Flow. Never ever change the point of view in a middle of a chapter for heaven’s sake! If possible, make the point of view consistent in the whole story. That’s more appropriate and the flow will be smoother.

I am having a block right now. I still need to add more of this from time to time but I hope you learned something from my rants! Hehe. *hugs everyone* - teukie_zeroed