Fanfic 101

Website
Name:	Fanfic 101 ("Where Stories Come to Learn")
Owner/Maintainer:	Celli and JenC
Dates:	04 April 2002 or before (webcounter, Wayback) - 09 April 2010 (last update)
Type:	resource site, 101
Fandom:	multifandom
URL:	http://www.fanfic101.com Fanfic 101 (around 2002) Fanfic 101 (around 2004)
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Fanfic 101 is a website with essays (or "lectures") on writing fanfiction. It also used to host fanfiction by Celli (the "Page of Doom") and Jen F..

The main authors are Celli and Jen F. Other authors are Calanthe, Jayne, Robin, Chris, and Lizbet.

The page was mentioned and quoted in Why? -- A Not-Remotely-Complete Investigation of the "Why Slash/Why Het/Why Femslash" Debate.

Descriptions

Description from seanachais:

Celli and JenC's page, functioning not only as an archive for the pair, but as a good source of essays on writing. I'm in it mostly for Celli's stuff -- she's written a little bit of everything, gen to slash. Currently she's writing Alias, but there's Buffy, Highlander, Forever Knight... You get the idea. All of it's good.

From the website:

Welcome to Fanfic 101!

We love fanfic. Vignettes, epics, Mary Sues, missing scenes, AUs...as long as it's interesting and done with love, we'll read just about anything.

But there are some things that we can't help but notice over and over (and over) again. Flaws in good stories that make them harder to read. And it's frustrating to start a story that might be our new favorite--and stop halfway through because we just can't read one more paragraph with bad spelling. Or whatever.

Your professor is Jen F. For Jen's credentials as the head of the department, go here.

At Fanfic 101, we are commmitted to improving the quality of fanfic one fandom & one story at a time. To that end you'll find general rants about writing problems, as well as suggestions on how to fix them. Stay tuned for new "lectures"--and if you have a pet peeve you'd like us to talk about or a story you want workshopped, let us know!

And spread the word!

The Essays

• Mary Sues and Other Confessions
• Fan Fiction ~ My Road to Publication
• Trying to Crack the Comma Conundrum, ^{Archived version}

• Show 'N Tell, ^{Archived version}

• Miscellaneous Writing Issues, ^{Archived version}
• Beta Reading & You, Part I, ^{Archived version}
• Beta Reading & You, Part II : Establishing Expectations, ^{Archived version}

• To Be or Not To Be Passive...That is the Question, ^{Archived version}
• One, Two, Three, 4, 5, 6...Writing Numbers in Fiction - A Primer, ^{Archived version}

• Who is that Masked Man?, ^{Archived version}

• Styling Your Fic, ^{Archived version} (companion article to Putting Your Best Fic Forward)

• A Writer's Fourteen Best Friends, ^{Archived version}

• Putting Your Best Fic Forward or How to Get Me to Read Your Fic, ^{Archived version}

• Point of View, ^{Archived version}
• Capitalization, ^{Archived version}

• Author's Notes OR How to Make Sure I Never Read Your Story

• An Editor by a Different Name Still Uses Red Pen: Beta Reading and You, ^{Archived version}
• Whose Story Is It Anyway?: Challenges, Fanon, and Injokes
• "He said what?!": Mastering the Art of Dialogue, ^{Archived version}

• woman without her man is nothing or how should I punctuate, ^{Archived version}

• I Love Writing, ^{Archived version}
• Homework is Half Your Grade!, ^{Archived version}

• Truly Picky British-to-American and American-to-British Giveaways: How to Sound Like You Went to Oxford (or UCLA) Even If You Didn't, ^{Archived version}

• Alternatives: Why What Didn't Happen Is So Much Fun, ^{Archived version}
• A Deeper Kind of Shallow: Theme, Symbolism, and Resonance in Fanfic, ^{Archived version}
• Was Your Brain With You all day? Making POV Work for You, ^{Archived version}

• Music, Fanfic, and the Combination Thereof

• Don't Let Us Catch You Doing This (Ten cliched romantic plots we never want to see again...probably.), ^{Archived version}

• Grammar is Not the Woman Who Gave Birth to Your Mother, ^{Archived version}

Fan Comments

Celli and JenC's page, functioning not only as an archive for the pair, but as a good source of essays on writing. I'm in it mostly for Celli's stuff -- she's written a little bit of everything, gen to slash. Currently she's writing Alias, but there's Buffy, Highlander, Forever Knight... You get the idea. All of it's good.