Starting A Calling Card Business

fanfic writers Guide, Part III

4. The importance of a beta reader

Suppose you already wrote. Already learned the rules and applied them, they kept the style, they used the rhetoric and his extensive vocabulary, narrated without boring the reader with unnecessary descriptions, etc.. Do not believe they have done. Now comes the time when his beautiful work to teach her first reader yourself. I can not tell how many times you have to read critically and to correct what needed to be compliant. In my case, I begin to read and reread since I start to write. In this way I ensure that I have written so far is consistency and logic, and it gives me an idea of how it should proceed. Once at least three times I'll read.

Good. Once you are satisfied, they should look for a beta reader. Need not be someone who knows grammar not even be a writer (even if all that better.) What happens is that, being our own writing, there are things that we overlook because, having gone out of our heads, to some extent what we know about memory and reread not pay as much attention as we should. Another problem is that as we know our own history and our characters, there are things we take for known but perhaps not so well. I have passed comment where I said they could not understand what character was speaking at any particular time, whereas for me it was understood perfectly.

Now, a beta reader is just that: a reader. Mark errors that may have missed, warn us about things they do not understand and give us feedback on how we could improve. Since we have given the post of beta reader, we listen with patience atencióny what we have to say, but when in the field to the view, than he thinks, what he likes , we must not forget that the work is ours and we have the last word. If we like your new idea, great, we adopt it. If not, we will thank you for your opinion and leave it at that.

5. Inspiration

One of the biggest problems I find in fanfics is precisely its origin: the manga or anime, two media that have little to do with literature . So when we make a transition from the TV the picture to a story or narrative, we encounter serious difficulties (or at least it should). The resources we have are not the same as they have no pictures, animation, sounds, in short, all that remains are, broadly speaking, words. Nobody ever said that a fanfic writer has to be a writer or a BA. In fact, they can write whatever they want and however they want, it is not just a hobby. But if you're reading this, guess it's because they want to improve or find something that will be useful, so here are my tips: keep an open mind all the time. Twenty-four hours a day. Of course the base of his inspiration will be given by the manga or anime, which is where the fanfic goes, but there does not end the world. Read books and newspapers, watch movies, series and news, be alert when you go down the street, when talking to people, when out with friends, when they work as you study. Anything can trigger the inspiration. And, if you really are interested in becoming good writers try to translate all his experiences, all the information they receive through the five senses, in the words and phrases. This practice is, most of the time, infallible.

6. The errors common in fanfics

On this last point I will refer to something more precise: I see errors that are repeated in most badfics (and not so badfics).

· Smileys and emoticons: is not correct to use this type of resource, also commonly known as "emoticons." For this there are the words, descriptions narracióny. Example:

"- You like?" She asked, twisting his mouth into a wicked smile. "

And no:

* "- Like it? > =)-he asked. "

Training · incorrect adjectives, generally referring to hair color and eyes. The only correct word is "red", from which degenerated guess these abominable inventions. There are no "peliverde" or "dark-haired" or "peliblanco" or "ojiavellana" much less "dangerous oji-violet" (just removing this term from a fanfic I found out there). For that we have words like "fair", "too dark", "brown", "gray", "albino."

Unfortunately, since there are no green hair, violet, pink, etc., Natural, do not count, at least for the moment, with English words to describe them. Then: "the green hair," the girl with the purple hair, "" the Pink-haired boy ", etc. The same goes for the eyes: "the golden-eyed," the girl with the hazel irises, "the boy with black eyes."

· author notes: they are always at the beginning or end of the fanfic or chapter. Unless our story is a kind of parody that supports it (although it is still debatable), we should never interrupt the narrative with a note from the author. What need is there to distract the reader? If it is something essential we have to say, and it is essential that we do in the middle of the story, then we should add it as part of the narracióny not as author's note. Example:

"Roy stopped the eye (the eye rather xD) in Riza amazed to see her civil

This can be easily replaced by: Roy stopped the eye or, rather, his one eye on Riza, amazed to see her civil

course in a serious context should obviously the setback and to the point: " Roy stopped his eye on Riza, amazed to see her civil

Or, to be a little less rude to the one-eyed character, "Roy Riza stopped his gaze, surprised to see her civil

· screenplay format: like it or not, the fanfic has adopted the structure of literature. In fact, most of the pages have not upload formats fanfics script. The reason why many writers choose this format, I think, is because it is much easier and faster. However, the script has invented not for the public to read directly, but to be adapted to the cinema, television, manga, etc. More than one will agree with me when I say I read a story in screenplay format is bored to suck a nail.

careful, because this format would also be part of the script:

"" Hey, Light-kun (says L. Close the door) .

"Hi," replied Ryuuzaki Light. (Thinking of Light: Damn! I caught red-handed ...)"

· Abuse Japanese words: this is rather an opinion, but I think many share it. In some special cases not think it's wrong to use them, but their abuse, especially if it is within the narrative, can become tedious. For example, I love that L Light refers to as "Light-kun" or changing fandom, Alphonse Elric Edward concerns as their nii-san. Characterization gives some characters, and reminds us how to speak in the canon. But since the characters are saying things like "Kawaiiii!" or "Sugoooi!" or that the narrative find their "super kawaiioso Otouto was" quite shocking to me.

· 's announcement flashback, time and place : this is part of the script format. In the literature using this type of ads that make the text appear segmented. Are thousands of fanfics things like

"Mello began to remember what had happened ...

FLASHBACK

Near

gave him a chocolate Mello. Mello blushed.

END OF FLASHBACK "

When in fact we could clarify that we are talking about the past of the narrative by simply typing:

" Mello began to remember. The day before, Near had given him a chocolate, and he was blushing. "

The correct tenses is very helpful in these cases.

· tense change: we must choose the time in which she describes, and from there to respect or to vary according to how they will change the time in history. Suppose we have chosen to narrate in the past. So everything that happens in normal time in history will be in past perfect (I loved) or imperfect simple (I loved). If you suddenly want to talk about the past of the past (ie, a flashback), use the pluperfect (I had loved). Also the verbs are in the subjunctive mood will go past (which I loved, I would have loved). In case you did not know, there is the future of the past: the conditional simple (I would loved). If, on the contrary, what we want is suddenly put us in this, we can begin to narrate in the present simple.

I know that if it is not very clear on the matter of tenses, all this sounds a bit confusing. I write an example, just in case:

"As Mello was (past tense) high, jumped (past perfect) gate. The previous week had been (past perfect tense) practice their jumps. Indeed it would loved (pluperfect subjunctive mode) that was Near (imperfect subjunctive) there to see. After the jump, looked at his teammates and said he would try next day (conditional simple) again. still remember (present simple) victory expression on his face. "

Or this:

" As Mello is (present simple ) high jump gate. The previous week was (past perfect) practice their jumps. Really would like (conditional) Near that were there to see. After the jump, watching his teammates and said that tomorrow will try (future) again. "

In the following example, the tenses are altered incorrectly:

" Mello was tall and thin. Everyone expected jump * . Gained momentum and he did. At the end, everybody clap * . "

should be" expected to leap "and" everyone cheered, "to respect the past.

· References cumbersome, in general, we write , unless we want to do it on purpose, do not like repeating words. A thesaurus should be enough to solve (at least in part) the problem. However, something that becomes really heavy and even confusing is when we begin to call the protagonist and other characters of millions of different ways you never to mention his name. I'm not saying it's wrong, and to read same name five times per paragraph gives the impression that the writer did not bother her stay mínimamete decent writing. To understand what I mean, I'll give an example:

"Edward threw himself on the table to eat the food. Alphonse, however, sat down gently. The blond was hungry, so in a heartbeat filled his plate of food. The brown-haired ( pelicastaño is strictly forbidden) coughed, trying to point out to your brother to behave. However, the largest of the Elric ignored him. Embarrassed, the lowest shrugged. "

I think in these cases should rearrange some sentences to subjects not go back and forth, and so have no need to name them so many times:

"Edward threw himself on the table to eat the food. He was hungry, so in a heartbeat filled his plate of food. Alphonse, after having sat gently cleared his throat, trying to point out to your brother to behave. However, their wake-up call was completely ignored. Embarrassed, he shrugged. "

You see? Only one mentioned their names time, and needed to use a single reference ("your brother").

In conclusion

I hope that if they came up here without being boring, at least one miserable thing of all issues they have been tried utility. In case anyone is frightened (especially with so many spelling and grammatical rule), do not despair, I wrote my first fanfic atrásy six years ago, but I was always very careful with spelling to and too much detail, I assure you the patterns and gave OOC nightmares. 99 percent of what I wrote in this guide I learned by myself, either reading, researching, or through practice.

As I said initially, this is just my personal experience, my strategies when writing fanfiction, and certainly each will own.

Of course, thank you very much for reading.

Chokomagedon

Mount And Blade The Wedding Dance Instruction

guide for writers of fanfic, part II

3. The writing itself

3.1 THE RULES

Know this: there are many, unfortunate or fortunately, necessary.

observe the rules of writing not only makes people say "Oh! Look how well written this person! You must know all the rules! " but, referring to something much more simple to understand each other and make for easier reading, pleasant and enjoyable.

3.1.1 The spelling rules

are those that were taught in elementary school and tell us why "good" and & ldquo ; kindness "are written with b, why" send "is spelled with v, for which" start "with m, ETC. etc., etc. Obviously I am going to say it all because I do not remember half. This is where I recommend you read, read widely and carefully. The visual memory is going to be your best friend in this case as a palavra kuando read the notice strange eszrita wrong. Also, when in doubt, have dictionaries and whole books devoted to questions of language. Something very useful is the website of the English Royal Academy, where you will find both to be used online: www.rae.es

writing course in a word processor include spell checking is very helpful. I'm not perfect, and I am sure that when I write on paper I make many more errors than typing in Word.

3.1.2 The tildes

There are words which, because of the spelling rules of accentuation, always accents. There are rules for that and it is useful to learn. We must pay special attention as we pronounce certain words, it is not the same "loss" that "lost" because as both words are in English, a word processor is not the correct.

On the other hand, there are diacritic tildes. That is, accents that will differentiate one word from another, depending on whether the place or not. Examples are some articles (not accented) and personal pronouns (accented). If you look on the internet I'm sure you will find the list, because there are many.

3.1.3 The grammar rules

In this case and turn to something more complex. Grammar rules teach us matches (for example, have to be "the table" and not "the table" or "I sang," not "I sang"), tenses (narrate always in the same tense), what words govern what prepositions (eg, the verb "have" to be built with the preposition "with" and not "de"), etc., etc. ., etc.

3.1.4 Punctuation

It's annoying to read a text without punctuation. Know that there are the comma, period and thereafter, the full stop, semicolon, colon, etc., And each sign has different functions and, in general, can not be replaced by another. There are occasions in which the author may choose, according to your taste or style, one or the other, but there are cases that are required to sign this or that and this should be respected.

There are also cases in replacing a punctuation mark or omit the other can change the meaning of a sentence. For example: "My love was" not the same as "My love, came."

is important to know that in English, the signs of question exclamacióny open and close. Place the sign only at the end we leave the English and literary and less formal areas such as instant messaging. "What time is it?" " What time is it? "

3.2 The style

The style consists of a series of choices we make before start writing and we should respect to the end.

This includes what I said earlier about the use of punctuation. If we will use the comma then we use a lot during the whole work.

must also choose the optional symbols and functions. For example, we decided that for the talks will use the dash (-), parentheses for clarification (()), for thoughts of the characters quotes ("") and for words where we want to do some emphasis italics source. If this is our choice, not between the text can start using quotation marks and italics for dialogues because we would be confusing to the reader.

Other things to observe are the source, Sizeand lineup of titles and subtitles.

3.3 The rhetoric (Or the art of words)

The words are devalued. This is because we do not need much practice or instruction and studies to use. Learn to speak from a very small and we're improving (or degenerated, in many cases) as they grow. What many do not realize is that words can be as important and as useful as good use of colors and technique are for the painter. In fact, there is evidence (and not very difficult to prove) that two phrases mean exactly the same produce different feelings in the listener / reader if you change the order of their words or if they are used synonymously. For example: say "Mello groaned a bit as a sign of discomfort, as the sun was furious and insisted on freezing their light into the thousands of golden threads." is almost the same as "Mello groaned because she felt slightly uncomfortable. It seemed that the sun, which shone a lot, not down, as was flashing her blond hair. "And at the same time, is not the same, right? I'm not saying one is better or worse than another, but both generate a certain way, different sensations.

The art of rhetoric is, in my view and in my experience, the most difficult and time consuming to acquire. You have to read, write, and much experience to develop it. Do not think there's a secret or a manual to learn.

Here is the link to a page that I found very useful with a list of rhetorical figures:

http://www.monografias.com/trabajos21/figuras- rhetorical / figures-retoricas.shtml

3.4 The rhythmic

Although most apparent in poetry than in another area words have, placed inside a text and coexisting with other words, a rhythm. With this in mind when writing, as well as beautify our writing itself, we will make not only the words and sentences and paragraphs that are communicated, but also how they are wealthy and organized. This also is a game. To think of an ordinary text as it would any and see how altering the order of words in the sentence, changing punctuation, etc.., Do something more interesting. An example: "The Words are treacherous. The words hurt. The words lie. "

normal thing would be to say" Words are treacherous, hurt and lies. " But obviously not the same. Even the feeling, the image formed in our head is different.

"wandered throughout the class, trying to imagine what might have thought while he was attacking his fellow albino. In a white sack filled with sand. A compact ball of cotton. A little lamb that had just bite.

In Mello. "

would be the same:" wandered throughout the class, trying to imagine what might have thought while he was attacking his albino friend. In a white sack filled with sand, or in a compact ball of cotton, or a little lamb who has just bite, or Mello. "

Do you understand what I say when I speak rhythmic? If we were to make a melody based on the original sentence, the principle could be quiet. A stanza long and not too hard. While you are naming opportunities, would become small silences between them, each can be represented by short sounds, but still weak. Then silence is expected to achieve (the unnecessary full stop.) And finally, he is called to Mello as a note perhaps even shorter than before, but loaded with all possible energy.

I hope, at least in part, has been understood. I want you to understand is that not only the words communicate things. Your order within the sentence, the alternation of long and short sentences, commas and dots, uses full stop until the dumbest thing imaginable. Absolutely everything is going to give meaning to what they write.

3.5 The vocabulary

To write, unquestionably, must have a rich and varied vocabulary. There to know many words, synonyms, and also know exactly what they mean. For this, ladies and gentlemen, there are people who devoted years of his life writing dictionaries. Use them, explórenlos, inquire in as often as necessary. It is also important here, the kind of whatever you are writing. "Ass" is not the same as "back" or that "buttocks" or that "buttocks" or that "grips" but we are referring to the same body part that we like to name the fanfic writers. The mere fact of choosing the wrong word can cause completely ruin the atmosphere of our history.

3.6 The structure

What I'm going to call "structure" would be the most visual of our writing. Format. How will they be arranged in paragraphs, if we leave spaces between them, if we abuse maso less than full stop, etc. What I recommend, more from my experience as a reader as a writer, is to use the full stop at least whenever necessary (and I think that would facet least three full stops) and they leave a line between each paragraph. Here we do not talk of good and bad quality of the work, but the extra effort you have to make the reader not to get lost between the lines. Have you ever met a well-known text or noodle chorizo ? Surely even super interesting and engaging, half of the veneer and will not want know anything. This is because the text is more along the harder it will maintaining attention. And of course not want to lose the attention of your readers so stupid for one thing.

If you're going to do is submit your fanfic in a Word or similar file and not upload it to a page format is usually the default, you should use justified alignment , good margins and also, if desired, bleeding.

3.7 The person and the POV

the same way that we will respect the tenses, we must also respect the person and to the point of view chosen from the beginning. First of all we ask: Who will tell the story? How much do you know about the facts and inside the minds of the characters? The answers to these questions may be:

• First person: the narrator is a character the same story. You can be the protagonist or someone close to him, or a minor character who has heard the story from the mouth of another. It can be:

1. Narrator protagonist: "I'll tell you a funny thing happened to me the other day." Narrator

2. witness: "I'll tell you something funny that happened to a friend the other day. "In this case the story narrated in third person, and at first when you are talking about about himself and his opinion about it.

• In second person, its use is not very common, but I've seen in more than one fanfic and, as you want to achieve, it can be cool. Example: "You will never stoop to pronounce my name. I sense you fear that doing so could reveal things unrevealed. "Clarify that this is not something that says a character as dialogue, but is the story itself.
• In third person, in this case is not a character history. It can be:

1. omniscient Narrator: know everything about the world of history. And when I say everything, I mean everything: thoughts, feelings and moods of the characters, past, present and future of what happened and will happen in history, etc. Example: "Mello sat back, for he was very tired and cranky. Matt feared again to ask about his past, such as dark past which so little remembered. But if I had known what would happen the next day, he would have skin hen. "
2. equisciente Narrator: Similar to first-person protagonist narrator, since he knows the thoughts, memories and feelings of the protagonist but no other characters. The advantage is that the third-person narration has some information in ways that would be impossible in a first person narrative, this narrator can, for example, provide details known but not recognized by the protagonist (which have gone unnoticed, for example). You can make comments about the main character would never do himself, like the color of his eyes or his personal shortcomings. These first-person observations (about yourself) would be highly questionable, but by coming in third person given gain in credibility.
3. poor Narrator: The narrator poor unless the player knows about history. Add only what can be seen and heard, without penetrating into the minds of any of the characters.

(Source: Wikipedia)

3.8 Is Narrate or describe?

So

is called a text that was read for college xD Anyway. What I try here, which is not less important, is what we should choose the time of writing our history. I'll start by quoting an example I've seen the start of dozens of fanfics: "It was a day like any other. A girl came to class. His name was Joseph. He wore a brown dress shoes, same color, white socks and a blue jacket. Her hair was dark blond and green eyes. The color of his skin was pale. I was fifteen. It was quite vain and spoiled, but got good grades in school and was Charlotte's good friend. "Well, I guess everyone will have fallen asleep. Of course we all have ever said that the descriptions are necessary to beautify and make more rich to our story. I tell you: the description, in general, should be subject to the narrative, or else our letter will be the sensation of still pictures one after the other. Sure we can describe the clothes he was wearing Josefa, of course we can say that it was vain and spoiled, it is always better when we take the work their actions and their utterances (dialogs, for example) will reveal the type of personality you have. Furthermore, why say it was a day like any other? If really so, not even worth mentioning. What is not mentioned, is taken for granted, so if nothing is said about the day the reader assumes that it is a day like any other. We are not watching TV or watching a picture, so it is not strictly necessary that we describe in detail the scene pure visual in which the story unfolds.

good thing to narrate and describe not so much that opens up the possibility of suggest instead of throwing all that we want the reader to know or imagine. For example, we can write a complete fanfic that is in love with Near Mello, without naming the word "love" or "love" or "honey" or "feeling" or "heart" or anything like that. This is, in my opinion, a very interesting resource. In fact, the less obvious we are, the more reasons and incentives will take the reader to keep thinking and analyze it again and again to write.

3.9 The transgression

all know that the English language (and all languages) has rules of spelling, grammar, notational , etc. It is already understood that the spelling rules are intransgressible. Without exception. There are other rules, a little more flexible and less indispensable, as rupture, if it is made intencióny knowledge may mean that the author wanted to draw attention the reader in a particular thing, or just want to play with the text and structure. What has to be clear is that for breaking a rule you must first know or we risk making a mistake and it is noticed.

An example of this is repetition. In general, a good writer avoid repeating a word and take care to use synonyms or pronouns. This does not mean never, ever going to repeat the same word, where intent: "He began to tremble like a frightened child . I was really scared . "" If this Mello, Mello if that. "" needed was to increase the speed, covering miles and miles with dangerous speed. needed was to evoke the texture of your skin, the silkiness of her hair, the rhythm they acquired their palpitations when together they plunged into a sea of what then did not know the name of lust. Urgently needed found it to jump off his motorcycle and almost running to the entrance of one apartment. "" (The words are treacherous. The words hurt. The words lie.) "It is not so bad, right? Not to mention that the overuse of synonyms gives the impression that the text is forced and becomes unnatural (I'll discuss this later).

trasgresióny

Other examples of experimentation:

"Near knew immediately that was what I was trying (com) to prove how little complementary. "

"" Yes, I can realize that, "joked Matt, forcing a smile.

(Her tears are sincere.)

[...]

"Sorry," was all he said, and with that said many things.

(Her tears are sincere.) "

Never forget: writing is an art, and like all art has rules that can be respected or transgressed, but always with some intencióny consciousness.

3.10 The lemon

As fanfic writer and reader, I love the lemon. This does not mean I like all the stories that lemon, or having to put lemon on everything you write.

Here I have little to say. Everyone has their tastes, and this is indisputable. I want to make clear and I suppose it needless to tell them is that not all fanfics have to deal with sex or gender is not good to put everything you can. Just as good themes, good characters, good general and informacióny good story will do our story, despite the redundancy, good, well written lemon and placed at the right time will achieve the same result. It's a bit annoying when the lemon gives the feeling of being inserted without much reason to be inside a story, because it seems so forced. Do not say you never did. As I said, I like the lemon, and provided to recount how my favorite characters wallow in them, I made disasters.

If they wish to write lemon without bothering to devise a story, that's what the PWP (Plot? What plot?), Which actually has nothing wrong and is even stressing.

Here again the same as before: be careful with vocabulary. There are words that, depending on how the story is, can sound out of place and even unpleasant. I come to read expressions like "wet anus", which have nothing exciting. In addition, the years do not get wet (unless you have previously been spit or whatever). Vaginas are the only ones that have the advantage of producing its own lubricant, so unless you want your uke is torn, I recommend to clarify that the seme in question is using some kind of lubricant (saliva, minimum). In general, men, once they ejaculate, it takes about twenty minutes to get an erection again. The screams of pleasure and / or pain in the style of: "¡¡¡¡¡ AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH are also highly recommended !!!!!" (and not only account for the lemon).

What I just said may safely be taken with tongs. The lemon not usually realistic, and this is not so bad. After all, not most are hentai and yaoi, right?

not forget that sex does not necessarily mean love, and love does not necessarily mean sex.

desinspirados

If they feel or believe they lemon out all identical, they may seek inspiration or watch yaoi hentai (or porn, why not?), Read doujinshi, find pictures, fantasize. Or have sex!

How Relieve The Esophagitis

Guide fanfic writers

In recent days I have not written or advanced in any of my fanfics because the short time I used it in this: a guide for writers of fanfic.

actually can be considered as a guide for writers of prose in general, but is especially aimed at fanfickers.

confess that at first, when I came, I was not sure whether to publish. Mainly because writing a tutorial guide means given some authority or importance; I do not want anyone to think that it is my intention.

For now publish it only in my livejournal because I can not think of another site. If anyone believes that this will interest people from a forum, website, etc., Or if you pass it to an (old) friend (s) know you have my full permission to do so.

The'll post several entries because it is a bit long and has a certain limit livejournal extension.

fanfic GUIDE FOR WRITERS

For Chokomagedon

With the simple goal of helping those who wish to improve on his hobby of writing fanfiction, I have written this guide. Last thing I want to imagine is that I believe an authority on the subject or I'm writing a kind of dogma. On the contrary. I would like to be taken as advice or, better still, as the story of my own experience in this genre. It would be great to give me their own ideas to improve, correct or expand it, or ask me about any other topic that I will not talk.

try to be as clear and less technical as possible. I hope you understand.

Whoever is reading (and also directed to me), hopefully this will be of some use.

1. history

History will be the trunk of whatever we're going to write. Will be the answer to: What is your fanfic (or writing or story, or whatever)? The important thing to know here is that the answer to this question is not always going to be something that will leave stunned and extremely excited about the subject in question. If that were the case, excellent, mass points for their creation. Yes, precisely the issue at hand is not original or that it seems the idea of the century, not to worry. Because the importance of a story is not so much what is said but how it is told. For example, if I told my fanfic "Procrastination" is the latest carnal encounter between Matt and Mello before his death, and fear, anguish and sadness that everyone feels, not that anyone will think "Wow! This girl is a genius. " Any idea can end up in a great long letter when I tell an interesting way.

something I do recommend, I do not usually meet most of the time I write long stories with many chapters, is designed to have the whole plot. Not all the events, situations and details, but least known development node and outcome. Do not believe that this recommendation is only after your mental health when faced with the final draft without knowing exactly what the hell are going to write, but because this will give them more possibilities when framing events and at the same time, give a greater sense of wholeness to the entire work.

1.2 The issues

The themes are constant that can be used along the same story to give a sense unit. Not necessarily have to be important or may even go unnoticed. Returning to the example of "delay", the theme that governs the depth of time (based on that I placed the title). Although not the central argument can be seen in several sentences: "In a quick and graceful movement," It was as if the sun refuses to be buried on the horizon. "" He waited , with infinite patience, "" Matt would have liked to see the whole damn world this time, "the sun, Furious, he insisted freeze light into the thousands of golden threads. "," delayed the sunset. " Even having several issues sleeve can help us if we are blocked at some point to follow. The more you play with items, will be our writing more interesting.

1.3 The general culture and research

Having some general knowledge, particularly in respect of fanfics that involve the real world (like Death Note ) to write to the foundation and give the reader the feeling that we know where we stand never hurts. For everything else, there are Google and Wikipedia (no, Master Card in this case is not going to be helpful.) Let me give some examples with my fanfic "Wammy's." In the early chapters, which discuss Matt's past, there are two women who sing a song in another language. In fact, here I made a mistake I think that happened because someone once told me that Matt's name was Irish, but I remembered that I had said Finn. Ignoring the confusion (I do not know if that error, because "Jeeves" could easily sound Finn), I searched on Google "poems in Finnish." What I found was the Kalevala, an epic poem. Voilà ... I already had an interesting element to add to my fanfic. Of course the two women are music for the Kalevala in a filthy street in Finland would be in our culture street musicians reciting the Song of my Cid. Quite surreal and even frightening, no?

less rugged

Another example is the chapter on childhood de Mello. Here most of us agree that Mello could be German, right? What I wanted was for Mello to be brought up in a red light district. So, again, I searched on Google "Germany + Red Light District." That was how I found the information I needed, and even a description of the city eventually chose.

Of course I do not have to do is write an encyclopedia. It just take time to find some details that will make our work look more complete and real. For example, if we write about a trial, we investigate how a trial at the time and place out llevaríaa. Same if we tell a marriage or any thing that can screw it up by ignoring the issue.

2. Characters

If I said that the idea history was not important, here I can not say the same. The characters are going to make the story progress. Going to do things, to interact among themselves, make decisions, etc.. Then, after outlining the idea of history (because before you know what will happen to our characters can not do more than that, a sketch), we need to develop the characters. And this is serious business.

First we must think what will be the initial state of our characters. Then, how will they make the situations and obstacles that are present in history, what is going cause inside, how they will react on the outside and, finally, how they will evolve because of it (if evolving), what changes can be seen in them after what they do has touched or live in history.

characters is something we can not work vaguely. A well-built character will interest even a mediocre story, and we even tell you how to advance it. I've never done it, but maybe (and more in the case of original characters) would be make cards with useful information that may not go at bringing history, but use it anyway. Do you like the character, why not, how is your past, how is your relationship with others, etc.

What I do is read many psychology texts. Obviously you do not need a psychologist to inquire about it. I confess that sometimes I search Wikipedia has sufficed. Now, the danger here is that we go hand and our paths will cross in the field of what I call "psychology cheap. " That is, make characters that seem drawn from a psychology manual for beginners to the point of creating a horrible cliché. Nobody likes the cliché. There is only one Norman Bates, thousands of traumatized children for a family of children abused them. In fact, while talking about Norman Bates, does not hate it at the end of Psycho explain in detail his mental illness? For the time when Hitchcock shot it was perfect, but it would make no sense to ventilate the "profound" psychology of our characters and so remove all grace. Who cares why Hannibal Lecter became a psychopath? To me, honestly, no. I'd rather be happy knowing it is a very interesting and mysterious character. Be careful, do not say you never have to explain or reveal anything. The important thing is to be aware of what is going to feed the story, what's going to become more rich and interesting, and what else, however, going back to the cliché characters , and over-explained.

2.1 The IC

Since this is primarily a guide for writers of fanfic, I will address this sensitive issue. First: Who never done OOC, cast the first stone. Writing fanfiction is, in my opinion, a way to OOC, because we're telling something that (presumably) the characters have never done in the canon. Of course this is not the end of the world, because to rewrite the canon better we cut all the hands and also each write what he is pleased, that it is freedom of expression. Now, if we wish to write a good fanfic with characters true to canon as possible, then be careful. Here is as good as I said before: the initial state of the characters is the time of the canon we chose to start our history. We do the same questions: do you like the character, why not, how is your past, how is your relationship with others, etc. And mainly, what haríay never do what . But suppose that we want our character to do something I never would. For example, we want Mello Near falls in love. So we have to create situations, events, changes and arguments necessary and inevitable for the character to develop and we really believe that Mello we read in the original manga can fall in love Near. Of course, the farther is the behavior we want to achieve the canon, we must strive more and more difficult it will be our task for not doing a great OOC. I mean, a great OOC, because a small OOC is fine. Nor will we write the history of the life of Mello until it becomes old and senile to the point of not remembering Near hates with all his soul, because readers would die of boredom before managing to throw a tomato.