9 Tips to Writing a Solid Fanfiction (or any story for that matter)

1. Your story needs to be grammatically correct.

2. The dialogue needs to be punctuated correctly (if you don’t know how to do this, ask or use google!).

3. Your protagonist needs to undergo a change. This does not - and perhaps should not be - a massive change. The change can be the beginning of a change. But there must be a recognizable change - otherwise there is no story.

4. The story must have a plot. Something must happen .Again, it doesn’t have to be a big, complicated plot with explosions and warfare. It can be very simple. But it must have a plot. The story must go somewhere.

5. Your characters should be flawed. And bad things should happen to them. Don’t protect your characters. Nobody wants to read Mary Sues.

(but just as a side note, flawed does not mean victimized. Victimized means things happen to them, and it’s sad and all, but they have played no role and hold no fault in the outcome of their problems.)

6. Your story should have a clear, consistent POV.

7. Your story should have a consistent verb tense, preferably simple past. Present tense is fine, but it’s tough to do.

8. If you include graphic subject matter, it must be organic to the story. If you write violent scenes just to be writing them, or for shock value and they don’t advance the plot or characterization, then the scenes don’t belong there. (Unless you’re writing PWP, then go on with your bad self)

9. Have fun. Writing should be fun. Write from your heart and your gut. Write what makes you uncomfortable and uneasy. Take risks. Remember what it was like when you were a kid and someone said “Once Upon A Time…” Write what you know. Write what you don’t know. Entertain us, move us, scare us. Do something to us. Change us.

Write something that matters. 

 

(REF:  http://ffisdangerous.tumblr.com/post/42317969975/9-tips-to-writing-a-solid-fanfiction-or-any-story-for )