Korey's K-pop Fanfic-Writing Guide
Description
Contains advice on the elements of how to write a good fanfic.
Foreword
I quite often get asked for writing advice on here – how do you create effective characters? How do you write time skips? How do you come up with a plot like that? After TBBC got featured, I suddenly had a lot more people asking me these questions, and on a more regular basis, too, so I figured I'd do a writing guide to avoid explaining the same things multiple times over. I'm hoping to cover all the elements of what I consider make up a good fanfic – or how you can make your fanfic as good as possible. This will go over characterisation, plot, pacing and flow, and just a little bit on language usage (and will include things like dealing with clichés, how to write things like action scenes, etc.).
It should be noted that I'm from the UK (so I use some terms that you'll normally see in UK English that you don't get so much in American English, or that mean different things in American English, so if you're not from Europe, you might not be totally familiar with them), and while I'm relatively new to this site and fanfiction, I do have a few years' worth of experience when it comes to writing. What applies to writing non-fanfiction fiction basically transposes into what applies for fanfiction in terms of what does and doesn't work, and then there's that little extra bit added that's specific only to fanfiction.
I'm also not much of a or reader and don't write either, and while I do read outside the EXO fandom, I only write EXO fics. What I do and don't read (and write) doesn't affect what is in this guide (or shouldn't) beyond the fact that there probably won't be much on how or how not to write and that examples for tropes etc. will be generically taken from what I've seen in the EXO ficdom, and examples used to illustrate points will be taken from my own fanfics (which are EXO/OC) or from my head (which could be anything, really, but is still likely to be EXO).
There will be a table of contents in the first chapter that has hyperlinks to specific chapters explaining specific things. Anything that is not in blue and therefore not a hyperlink is a topic I am planning to do. If there is something you want to see on there that isn't, then my PM, wall, and the comments section below are always open and I'm happy to take suggestions. This is for you rather than for me, after all.
Parts of this might get quite technical. I'm writing this from the perspective of a semi-serious writer, but hopefully it won't be too dense.
Most posts will also have a TL;DR at the top summarising the main information for people who don't want to read the whole thing.
Ciao, peeps!
Korey
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