Colors and Pictures

What to Do and What Not to Do in Fanfictions

Please do not use your colors or pictures in your fanfic.

Obviously you should not be writing fanfics if you think you need visual aids.

Using no colors includes the author's note. It is incredibly distracting and unnecessary.

You can use your words to express, describe, whatever the hell you want.

Use the power that every author has--their words. 

Preferably there should be no author's note at all.

I mean, I understand if you want to thank your faithful readers but if it's just to fangirl over the main character... don't. 

You will only make a royal fool of yourself and honestly, a reader's respect will most likely drop for you.

The authors that I hold in the highest regard have no author's note, pictures, character templates or anything.

Only words, as it should be. 

If you want to become everyone respects, do exactly this.

 

-Rue

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the_wylde #1
Chapter 3: Hmm, this is interesting and I guess it differs from one to another. I personally like author's notes a lot. I truly feel like most of the time, authors don't really want us to hold them in a high pedestal. Instead, they might just want to be friendly with the people who read their stories. It's a 'fans-to-fans' place and I personally feel so good getting to know the fellow fans. I hope that makes sense lol. And also, I might be weird but I love it when authors use the background and poster feature to set the mood of the story.
FullmetalTitan #2
Chapter 3: I think it's okay if users want to add a little color to their fics, but nothing too bright or blinding -__- Thank God they included a Enable Reader mode thing where you can disable brightly colored text ^^ Really comes in handy. I think soft colors should be fine though, like a soft shades of red or something...that's what I sometimes use :3

As for the pictures I'm against using them. I like describing them, so readers can visualize better rather then staring at an image.
immaninja13 #3
Chapter 8: Though plot is important, so is characterization. Yes, a good story can be written without describing the characters much, but lack of characterization can bore me easily.
TheChuglyOne #4
Chapter 5: Personally, I dislike when people write something like [Jongup Oneshot] C.R.E.A.M
We'll know from the tags, you don't need to tell us!
TheChuglyOne #5
Chapter 1: Do you know what is awful? When people don't know when to use the comma instead of the ellipsis. I've seen fics that would go something like:
(I can't think of anything, so I'll just use an example with a name)
"I love you ... Jongdae"
Klutzy #6
Chapter 4: I understand the punctuation one though cause that really is annoying.
Kumikocchi #7
I have so many things I would rant about XD Interesting to see yours
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