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Tips for writing a good fanfic
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| Title: | Tips for writing a good fanfic |
| Creator: | Erin Holland |
| Date(s): | 1998? |
| Medium: | online |
| Fandom: | Hanson |
| Topic: | fanfic |
| External Links: | Tips for writing a good fanfic, Archived version |
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Tips for writing a good fanfic is a meta essay written by Erin Holland and hosted on her website. It was written around 1997 or 1998.
The essay is focused on Hanson fanfic and offers a list of advice on what to do and not do, with many examples of good and bad fics. Recommending reading at the end of the essay includes Roads and Zac Says Tay Still Wets The Bed.
Excerpts
NOTE: I'm not intending to insult anyone in these. If U see one of your things being mentioned as normal, don't take it to heart, but learn for next time, ok?
1- Key tip. Go for an ORIGINAL plotline. Take a dare and don't do a romance. But, if you must, avoid doing the typical "I, being the most gorgeous girl alive, move in next door to Hanson and Taylor asks me out on the 2nd day!" Especially with that whole "My window faces the Hanson's!" We've all seen it. We're all sick of it.
15-If you feel that your story MUST have some sex in it, don't describe in tremendous detail. Example of 2 unnecessarily detailed stories: Tulsa 74132 and Rope and Rape. Some people like it, others spew.
20-HAVE FUN! Try not to write a story that'll bore you when itz half finished. If you have a feeling that you're gonna get bored, pay someone else to write it for you