![]() Write the worst, over-romanticized characters and amusingly despicable villains. ![]() Write something sappy, something stupidly erotic, something melodramatic, even something preachy. Tip 5: Make as many mistakes as possible. Such a story gives you a test chamber where anything goes, everything can be attempted, and where there are minimal stakes. By doing this, you'll be able to practice taking advice and trying suggestions blindly, to see how they will help or hurt your story, even if you do not agree with them. Take advantage of that! Post your fan-writing into forums and websites where fellow fans can look at your story, read your intent for writing the story, and then give you criticism that will be less personal and easier to get than when you are writing an original work. Tip 4: Take full advantage of fandoms and the fact that you have no rights to your fan-story.Įspecially when writing fan-fiction, there is little to no hope of it being published and little to no threat of people wanting to steal your work. It may seem like a daunting and useless task, but as a writer who did this and then diagrammed every word of a scene in “Silence of the Lambs” let me assure you that it is invaluable and can even be fun. This will also allow your to write your fan-writing closer to the style and feel of the original story. By doing this, you will gain a great appreciation for the way they organize sentences, paragraphs, word-choice, and how to make a flowing and living dialogue between characters. One of the best ways to do this is to open a blank word document and copy your favorite chapter or scene word for word. Tip 3: Copy your favorite chapter (or scene) word for word.Īnother great benefit to fan writing is that you can study the practiced, professional style of an author in great depth. By taking the time to write strategically and with purpose, you will be teaching yourself invaluable writing skills that you will be able to take over into your future original works. If you just want to have fun, focus on telling a story that is simply more fun than the first. If to spend more time with characters, tell a story that explores and develops their personalities to the same extent. If you want to explore the world more, tell a story that will allow the audience to see the world even more clearly than in the original. Once you have written down your motive for writing your fan-story, make efforts to achieve your goal with excellence. No matter what your motive for writing fan-fiction, you are ultimately taking the first steps in learning how to be a writer of original works. Tip 2: Turn your fan-writing into a powerful writing exercise. Know your motivation and write it down in concrete detail before you begin writing. For others, it is simply a joy to be in that beloved world after the story is over, or likewise spend more time with beloved characters. ![]() For many people, fan-writing provides a way to fix the flaws in the plot that caused the story to be less than the excellence that it could have been (I'm looking at you, Frozen). There are many reasons why one would write fan-fiction or a fan-story. Tip 1: Know why you are writing a “fan-story.” Please note that while fan-fiction is included in this segment, I will be using the term “fan-writing” to also include original stories with original characters that closely resemble or are in some way related to preexisting stories. Today, I'm going to talk about how we can make fan-stories serve us as best as possible. Most of us, perhaps all, become writers because at some point of our life we fell deeply in love with a story. ![]() While I didn't know it, my first work was loosely a fan-fiction of Jurassic Park. When I was about seven years old, I wrote my first story-a short “book” about an island completely inhabited by velociraptors, and a hero who could have been Dr. Chapter 9 “Types of Writers” – Section 6 “Fan-writing” ![]()
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